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Astronomer Patrick Moore hoped to find a comet

"Before I die, I would love to discover a bright comet," wrote the late British astronomer and broadcaster Patrick Moore. "It would be great to see Moore's comet blazing across the sky."
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Sir Patrick Moore: Chris Lintott's tribute

Sir Patrick Moore made a huge mark on astronomy, made all the remarkable by his insistence that he was not and never had been a professional scientist.
He counted himself as a writer and broadcaster first and foremost, but as Britain's most recognisable scientist for more than 50 years, he inspired countless people to take up astronomy as a hobby or astrophysics as a career.
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Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89

British astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore has died, aged 89, his friends and colleagues have said.
He "passed away peacefully at 12:25 BST this afternoon" at his home in Selsey, West Sussex, they said in a statement.
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Nearly seven decades have passed since Sir Patrick Moore's fiancée was killed by a Nazi bomb.
But the passage of time has clearly done little to quell the eccentric astronomer's deep-seated feelings towards Germans.

'The only good Kraut is a dead Kraut,' the 89-year-old has declared in an interview to mark the 55th anniversary of his star-gazing TV show The Sky At Night.

The comment, apparently delivered with the utmost seriousness, may seem shocking to younger generations but the scars run deep for Sir Patrick.

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Sir Patrick Moore is still filming The Sky At Night - the longest-running programme with the same presenter in the history of television ('I think we're on about instalment 760... I can't see anyone beating it now, can you?') - recorded here in his cluttered study.
The first programme went out live on April 26, 1957, and he has missed just one since - in 2004, when he accidentally ate a rancid goose egg and nearly died of salmonella.
He has also just finished his Data Book of Astronomy - an enormous compendium of pretty much everything you'd ever want to know about the cosmos, which took him ten years ('so much has happened - the probing of the planets, huge advances in astronomy') and is now sitting glossily on his desk, topped by Jeannie the cat.
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Sir Patrick Moore: In tune with music of the spheres

It is only when the elderly white-haired bloke slips in his monocle that he transforms, before my eyes, into Sir Patrick Moore, TV astronomer extraordinaire. His face, rather unremarkable when naked, takes on a purposeful, Churchillian quality, as his right cheekbone and brow clamp on to the glass disc that for decades has been a hallmark of one of the nation's best-known scientists.
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A science fiction film featuring astronomer Sir Patrick Moore has been unearthed, more than 50 years since it was filmed in the grounds of an Irish country estate.
Them and the Thing was the work of aristocrat Desmond Leslie, a UFOlogist and amateur film-maker who was friends with Sir Patrick.
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Patrick Moore's cameo in Irish sci-fi flick

For 50 years he has been an authority on astronomy for the BBC but fans of Patrick Moore will be surprised to know he starred in a Irish science-fiction film.
The veteran Sky At Night presenter starred in 'Them In The Thing', a low-budget movie, complete with flying saucers hovering over Castle Leslie in Co Monaghan, in 1954.
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Sir Patrick Moore On Pop
From 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun' to 'Supermassive Black Hole' Joel McIver played Sir Patrick - the greatest living Englishman with a monocle - interplanetary rock and pop and asked him about the science behind the songs

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