I am not newbie on this list (I started to "listen" to this list approx. 3 years ago), and I am feeling that it is necessary to introduce myself. I am not satellite observer, but I am interested in space research for a long time. I observed only ocassionaly very bright satellites (eg. Skylab in seventies, now sometimes ISS and Iridiums), but without any valuable results (as time and position measurement) for posting them on this list. My name is Antonin (=Anthony) Vitek. I was born in 1940 in Prague. I studied organic chemistry at Charles University (Mgr. ie. MS in 1962). then I was working at Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the (then) Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences on my PhD thesis (CSc. = PhD.) dealing with some computing methods application in infrared spectroscopy. Head of computing laboratory 1968-1985. I was a member of commentator team in the Czech TV during flights of Apollo 10 thru 12, but the political situation in Czechoslovakia worsened in the early seventies and it was practically impossible to even mention the western spaceflight in the Czechoslovak news media. Only one technical journal (Letectvi + kosmonautika = Aeronautics and Astronautics, might be fompared to the British journal "Flight International") was accepting some info about this in those days. In the 70ties I was a member of team working on programming support for the Czech automated furnace CSK-1 flown on Salyuts. Member of Czech Intercosmos WG for material processing. Head of IT department of the Main Library (ML) in 1986-1992, now Adviser to the Director of ML for IT. But the astronautics is for me mainly a great hobby only. I was author a co-author of many hundreds of newspaper and journal articles for general public in this field and I am working now on an Encyclopedia of spacecraft (in Czech language) which is one of several information resources prepared by the Main Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences (this is part of my professional duties), mainly for high school students in the Czech Republic. I'm living in small village Kytin cca. 35 km SW from center of Prague with rather good satellite observation conditions (but - sorry - I am not exploiting it oftenly). I connected to this list, because it is an unvaluable resource of information for me and for my work. -- Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc. Office: Main Library, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Narodni 3, CZ-11522 Praha 1 - Phone: +420(2)21403255, fax +420(2)24240611 Home: Kytin 127, CZ-25210 Mnisek p. B., Czech Republic Phone: +420(305)592865 - Coord.: 14.2194 deg E, 49.8488 deg N, 442 m ASL My satellite home page: http://www.lib.cas.cz/www/space.40/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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