Sir Patrick Moore
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Sir Patrick Moore(born 4th March 1923) is a famous English astronomer and broadcaster, full name Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, HonFRS, FRAS (
Known best for presenting long running BBC Astronomy show The Sky at Night since it first started on 26th April 1957, along with writing Astronomy books (over 70 of them) and some of his "eccentric" habits (e.g. wearing a monocle, playing the xylophone, etc)
A former president of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and former president of the Society for Popular Astronomy, Sir Patrick Moore has conducted significant work in the field of astronomy: in 1959, the Soviet Union used his charts of the moon to correlate their first pictures of the far side with his mapped features on the near side and he was involved in the lunar mapping used by the NASA Apollo space missions. In 1965, he was appointed Director of the newly-constructed Armagh Planetarium, a post he held until 1968. During the Apollo program, he was one of the presenters of BBC television's coverage of the moon landing missions. The tapes of these broadcasts were erased by the BBC wiped during the 1970s, on the basis that such old material had little value and to economise in storage expenses. He compiled the Caldwell catalogue of astronomical objects and in 1982 asteroid 2602 Moore was named in his honour.
