01 April 2016
Joke Carved into Olympus Mons by Unknown Race Discovered
... the moon only two years later, in 1969. On April 1, 1976, in an interview with BBC Radio 2, British astronomer Patrick Moore announced that at 9:47 am, the planet Pluto would pass directly behind Jupiter, creating a combined gravitational force and...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...Futures: 50 Years in Space’ by David A Hardy & Patrick Moore, 2004 Throughout the 1950s, science fiction and other illustrators ...since 1954 (the date of the first book I illustrated for Patrick Moore) it was almost like coming out of the closet when ...
26 February 2018
Exploring the Planets – A Memoir
... is – for good reasons – centred on the US, it is refreshing to find an Anglo-centric view. For me, a book that features photographs of Patrick Moore and the TARDIS on the same page makes the point very well. Mark Williamson
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... plates from the likes of the Palomar Telescope and, in the UK at least, marvel at the latest developments thanks to Patrick Moore’s ‘Sky At Night’ TV series. The best images of Mars and Jupiter were fuzzy blobs, there was no proof...
