Sir Patrick Moore

[Benchwayze]

I know there are a few astronomers on the Forum who will surely be aware of Sir Patrick Moore's passing; whether or not you know your nebulae from your constellations, I am also pretty sure many will have been entertained by this gentlest of gentlemen at sometime or another.
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If you don't already know about this site, and would like to leave a tribute, be my guest .

Sadly missed. RIP Patrick. 'You were a Jolly Good Egg and all-round true eccentric'.

http://www.banguniverse.com/tributes/

 

[henton49er]

I gained an interest in astronomy through watching "The Sky at Night" in the 1960s. Sir Patrick was fired with enthusiasm for his "hobby" and put this across to his viewers in a highly infectious way.

Brian May's words on the website say it all, really.

RIP Sir Patrick.

 

[llangatwgnedd]

Sorry, but I only watched him as there was nothing else on.

 

[Richard T]

The last of the greats I fear.

 

[Eric The Viking]

Patrick Moore was inspirational in every way.

I was given one of his books as a form prize at prep school. I still have it, about 45 years later. In it he wrote about the solar eclipse of 1999. It seemed so far away to a child. Needless to say I thought of him when I watched it with friends outside our factory.

He had a knack of making you feel part of things - all those programmes about the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and 1970s. There cannot have been a better time to have been a child interested in science and engineering.

The other brilliant thing that especially struck me (and there were so many) was his instant rapport with younger generations. The experts he gathered around him on the Sky At Night were wonderful to hear, and the obvious shared excitement made it compelling.

I shall miss him very much indeed.

E.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I met him in 1999 - I have never spoken to anybody so "politically incorrect". He was a joy to meet. R.I.P.