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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

Philip Corneille FRAS

Capt Charles Moore 1885-1947

Gertrude White 1886-1981

East Grinstead

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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

Philip Corneille FRAS

1890-2015

Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008

1937 : British Astronomical Association Director Brockhurst Obs ~ 16 yrs

Small Craterlets in Mare Crisium

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BAA Lunar section Walter Goodacre 1856-1938

Discoveries ~ libration Moon 59% Moon

RAF : Dec 1941 – Dec 1945 Aircrew Branch Wellington

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Hugh Percy Wilkins 1896-1960

Director BAA Lunar Section 1948 Moore = secretary

‘Oscar’ 30 cm Newtonian Nov 1951

Philip Corneille FRAS

Hugh Percy Wilkins 1896-1960

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

Philip Corneille FRAS

Philip Corneille FRAS

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

Philip Corneille FRAS

Philip Corneille FRAS

April 19584 cm refractor Meudon Obs

Origin Moon Origin Moon craters Far Side of the Moon TLP

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April 19584 cm refractor Meudon Obs

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

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April 19584 cm refractor Meudon Obs

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

NELIOTA – NEO Lunar Impact Monitoring (2015 Greece)

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

1956 : First editor BIS Spaceflight magazine

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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

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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

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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

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

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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)

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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

Philip Corneille FRAS

1962: Ranger 7 1966: Luna 9 surface photos

Surveyor 1 Lunar Orbiter 1

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

Philip Corneille FRAS

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

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

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

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Farthings Selsey East-Sussex GB

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31cm Newtonian Alt-Az mounting Moon & planets

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38,1 cm Newtonian Fullerscope Equatorial fork mount

12,5 cm Cooke refractor Equatorial mount

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P. Corneille FRAS

Nov 1973 Jul 1979

Aug 1989 Jan 1986

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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

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Historical astronomical events & observatories

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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

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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

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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

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

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

died aged 89 in his house FarThings in Selsey

Philip Corneille FRAS

Philip Corneille FRAS

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

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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

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October 2015

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

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2016 : Chicester Planetarium waxwork statue + refractor

London Science Museum permanent section

PMHT : financial support outreach 2023 : Centennial birthday

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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

Philip Corneille FRAS