Aug 14, 2024
The trademark monocle of Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer
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The trademark monocle of Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer
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Microscopium
I’ll hazard a guess, but chances are you’ve not come across the constellation of Microscopium, and even if you had heard of it, chances are you know fairly little about it.
It was first coined by French navigators “Le Microscope” in 1750s, but previously had been part of the more common constellation of Sagittarius. It’s southern location also means most of us in the Northern Hemisphere probably haven’t even seen it, never mind know about it.
Famously described by the British Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore as having “nothing of interest for amateur observers“, it certainly does have a huge number of deep space objects, some quite famous ARP objects.
The brightest star γ Microscopii is a large G type star, most likely on it’s way towards being a red giant. It’s currently 223 light years from Earth, however back tracking its path, it’s been found to have come within 1-3 light years of our Sun around 3.9 Million years ago, so close it would have been brighter than the brightest star in our sky currently and may have even disturbed the oort cloud.
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Welcome to an all-new series on 1UP Pod, GamesMaster Revisited! This series will take a look back at every episode of the groundbreaking Channel 4 classic series, starting with GamesMaster S1E1.
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The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow December 17th, 1988 Special Guests: Les Dennis, Sir Patrick Moore, Gloria Hunniford
You wouldn’t believe the scraping around they had to do to make The Sky At Night. The BBC got away with a lot. They took him for granted.
Brian May on the BBC’S treatment of Sir Patrick Moore [x]