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R.I.P. Sir Patrick Moore FRS FRAS FBIS

4 Mar 1923 – 9 Dec 2012

Philip Corneille FRAS

Patrick Moore 4 Mar 1923

Pinner - London


Capt Charles Moore 1885-1947

Gertrude White 1886-1981

East Grinstead


William Sadler Franks 1851-1935

60 cm reflector – Brockhurst Obs

1929 : The Story of the Solar System (1898) 1931 : Woodstock typewriter 1934 : 8 cm f/12 Broadhurst Clarkson refractor 1937 : BAA - British Astronomical Association 1938 : War of the Worlds ~ Radio drama


1890-2015

Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008

1937 : British Astronomical Association Director Brockhurst Obs ~ 16 yrs

Small Craterlets in Mare Crisium


BAA Lunar section Walter Goodacre 1856-1938

Discoveries ~ libration Moon 59% Moon

RAF : Dec 1941 – Dec 1945 Aircrew Branch Wellington


Hugh Percy Wilkins 1896-1960

Director BAA Lunar Section 1948 Moore = secretary

‘Oscar’ 30 cm Newtonian Nov 1951


Hugh Percy Wilkins 1896-1960

Director BAA Lunar Section 38 cm reflector 7,5 m Lunar Map 1934-1950



John Joseph O’Neill 1889-1953

Science editor New Yourk Herald Tribune 30 July 1953 10 cm f/15 refractor 18 days Moon Mare Crisium edge of Proclus crater

1954 : Patrick Moore No such feature...

Copernicus

Aristarchus

Kepler

Tycho

Proclus



April 19584 cm refractor Meudon Obs

Origin Moon Origin Moon craters Far Side of the Moon TLP



IOTA Occultations asteroids/planets Pre Unmanned spaceflight TLP Transient Lunar Phenomena



MIDAS – Moon Impacts Detection & Analysis Software (1999 Spain)

NELIOTA – NEO Lunar Impact Monitoring (2015 Greece)


1948 : BIS - British Interplanetary Society 1952 : BIS council 1953 : Guide to the Moon 1st non-fiction book

1956 : First editor BIS Spaceflight magazine


1956 : Sun Myths & Men 1956 : Debunking UFO’s 1956 : Ticket to the Moon

1957 : Stars of the Month Holst - the Planets 1957 : Sky At Night Sibelius - At the Castle Gate


1957: 24 April 1957

Comet Arend-Roland & Lunar Eclipse 22 May 1957

Comet Arend-Roland photography 20 June 1957

June NightSky

3X 15 minutes “Live” episodes


1957: “We need a little miracle one per month”

1959: Jan – Luna 1 ~ 1st Lunar flyby

Sep – Luna 2 ~ 1st Lunar impact

Oct – Luna 3 ~ 1st far side images


1958: Libration drawings Patrick Moore Russians Far side Moon 1959: Luna 3 1965: Zond 3


1903: Photographic Atlas of the Moon William Henri Pickering (1858-1938)

1910: Atlas Photographique de la Lune Maurice Loewy (1833-1907) & Pierre Henri Puiseux (1855-1928)

1960: Photographic Lunar Atlas Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905-1973)


1959: Zdenek Kopal T60 reflector Pic du Midi - 1.06 m NASA Jean Texereau (1919-2014) reworked M1 ~ 1964

1965: Project “ Moon Blink “ LASER Earth-Moon distance Apollo 11 , 15 Luna 17 & Luna 21


1962: Ranger 7 1966: Luna 9 surface photos

Surveyor 1 Lunar Orbiter 1


1961 : 50th Sky@Night Live Observation session 60 cm George Hole - Brighton 2015 : 750 th Sky@Night Dwarfplanet Pluto & Moons


1965 – 24 Dec : Meteor over Leicestershire David Radford fragments £ 23.00

Sky @ Night Feb 1966 BAA party ~ miraculous treasure size Christmas turkey Barwell stone-Chondrite meteorite


1965 - 1968: Director Armagh Obs & Planetarium N-Ireland


1968: FarThings 39 West Street Selsey East-Sussex Great Britain


Farthings Selsey East-Sussex GB


31cm Newtonian Alt-Az mounting Moon & planets


38,1 cm Newtonian Fullerscope Equatorial fork mount

12,5 cm Cooke refractor Equatorial mount


P. Corneille FRAS

Nov 1973 Jul 1979

Aug 1989 Jan 1986


1995 : Caldwell list

Patrick Alfred Tremayne Caldwell-Moore 109 Deep Sky Objects ~ “C” catalog addition Messier list “M” catalog visible from UK in small telescopes ( double cluster Perseus NGC 869 & 884)

descending declination Patrick’s favorite = Cassiopeia ( 6 Caldwell objects ) Sky & Telescope : December 1995


Historical astronomical events & observatories


1999 : Queen guitarist Brian May (°1947)

Life long passion Solar eclipses

2007 : PhD Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud

asteroid 52665 Brian May


2001 : Honorary FRS only amateur-astronomer ever !

BAFTA award presented by Apollo 11 Buzz Aldrin

2005 : Sky@Night monthly magazine + DVD 2007 : The Astronomical Patrick Moore


2007 : 50 yrs Sky@Night 2011 : 700th episode Sky@Night 2011 : BIS garden party ~ FarThings 2012 : Well-illustrated biography Sir Patrick Moore BAA Lunar section Martin Mobberley


Cats Ptolemy & Jeannie 2012 : rare photos & statistics biography Sir Patrick Moore


Sunday 9th December 2012 BBC obituary TV presenter/broadcaster/astronomer Sir Patrick Moore

died aged 89 in his house FarThings in Selsey



2012 : cat Ptolemy death-bed ~ FarThings Rest belongings 3 Godsons Adam, Chris & Ian Brian May bought FarThings £ 480.000 2013 : Last Sky@Night 6th January 2.2 Million viewers ! “Getting first telescope” AstroFest London 90th Birthday


March 2015

2014 : Museum ~ FarThings ? Jonathan Culshaw Paul Abel Pete Lawrence Chris Lintott Lucie Green Chris North

2015 : March ~ May BBC 4 Radio Play “ Far Side of the Moore “ 2nd Biography


October 2015


2015 : Brian May ~ FarThings For Sale Museum nor commercial activity residential area ? Parking ? Long term financial money pit ? UK Heritage trust plaque ?


2016 : Chicester Planetarium waxwork statue + refractor

London Science Museum permanent section

PMHT : financial support outreach 2023 : Centennial birthday


1923-2012 : statistics 5612 Variable stars 722 Sky At Night 400 BBC TV programs 330 Books 88 Observatories 18 Comets 11 Solar eclipses 2 Venus transits 1 Meteorite

The English the English... The English are the best. It’s as simple as that!

R.I.P. Sir Patrick Moore FRS FRAS FBIS

4 Mar 1923 – 9 Dec 2012


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