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(meteorobs) Subscriber Intro: Thomas Wojack <pued@msndot com>


A warm welcome to Thomas, who may be our youngest subscriber!

Lew
owner-meteorobs@latradedot com

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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 96 18:50:30 UT
From: "Thomas Wojack" <pued@msndot com>

Hello,

I'm Thomas Wojack.

Here is my Astronomical profile:

Around 1987, me and my family(I was 5 years old then)would look at the moon 
with just naked eye. In 1991 I found a 60mm refractor and just looked at the 
sky.  I saw several fireballs!  Unfourtantly, I lost the eyepiece.  So, I 
saved $25 and bought another eyepiece.  But this eyepiece had too much power 
and disliked telescopes. We were awed with the piece of rock.  In 1992, I 
started getting serious with astronomy.  I subscribed to ASTRONOMY Magazine.  
I was baffled by the amount of stars visible in binoculars.  In 1995, I 
decided to give telescopes another try. bought a 6" telescope from Orion.  It 
was incredible.  I watched Jupiter's moons dance and saw the 
moon(IMPRESSIVE!).  I observed the horsehead nebula(beautiful and super easy 
to find!).  In 1996, I joined ALPO to observe the moon.  I also got hooked on 
to the Internet, which has overwhelming astronomical resources.  I can get 
images for basically free.  I have never enjoyed astronomy so much!  When I've 
been playing outside, I would see some sporadics.  BTW, in 1993, I observed 
the leonids, and I saw 10 in about 25 minutes.  Meteors were the most amazing 
thing I had ever seen. 

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