Sir Patrick Moore R.I.P

[Tomliner]

I was very sad to read of his passing.A little while ago I read his excellent autobiography.He held strong views on the EU and never forgave Germany for the killing of his fiancée.A very talented and popular eccentric has been lost to us.R.I.P.EricT

[Paul K]

I've just been reading Patrick Moore's entry in Wikipedia, and what a fascinating life he led. For example, I've seen him play the xylophone, but I never knew he was also a pianist, and once accompanied Albert Einstein playing the violin. He also met Orville Wright in New York while on leave from training for the RAF. He never married because after the wartime death of his fiancée Lorna, he didn't want to settle for second best. In a way, he remained loyal to her all these years. A navigator with Bomber Command too - I shall think of him whenever I visit the memorial in Green Park.

A life well lived.

[Vancouver]

Sad loss. He knows now!

[Motormouse]

reunited with Orville Wright, Neil Armstrong and Einstein...
nice piece from Brian May here ---> http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/ ... 2c.html#01

ttfn

Pete

[cstorey]

He was a wonderful character . I knew him quite well at one time, as a regular attender at residential courses he ran , usually in concert with another splendid man call Colin Ronan who was a Professor at, I think, Cambridge and who played the straight man to Patrick's funnies, rather like Morecambe and Wise . PM also wrote some wonderfully iconoclastic anti-establishment books under the pseudonym R.T.Fishall ( say it out loud ) which I can recommend as an entertaining read . It is a tribute to the tenacity of the man that despite many years of illness he kept going, in public, to the end

[Scorpius]

I met one of the team, Dr Chris Lintott last year on my train (he was hurriedly rewriting the Sky at Night for that month as the Shuttle launch they were featuring was cancelled). I asked him about Sir Patrick and he told me he was 'irreplaceable' and loved working with him.

Sad loss.

[Paul K]

I saw a very warm tribute to him from Buzz Aldrin. Cant find the link though...will keep searching.

[nigelb]

Sad news indeed. I had a great interest in Astronomy as a lad and I still have his books "The Boy's Book of Astronomy" and "Guide to the Moon"

Nigel²