R.I.P. Sir FRS FRAS FBIS 4 Mar 1923 – 9 Dec 2012

Philip Corneille FRAS Capt Charles Moore 1885-1947 Gertrude White 1886-1981

Patrick Moore 4 Mar 1923 East Grinstead Pinner - London

Philip Corneille FRAS William Sadler Franks 1929 : The Story of the (1898) 1851-1935 1931 : Woodstock typewriter 60 cm reflector – Brockhurst Obs 1934 : 8 cm f/12 Broadhurst Clarkson refractor 1937 : BAA - British Astronomical Association 1938 : War of the Worlds ~ Radio drama

Philip Corneille FRAS

1937 : British Astronomical Association 1890-2015 Director Brockhurst Obs ~ 16 yrs

Small Craterlets in Mare Crisium

Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008

Philip Corneille FRAS BAA Lunar section Walter Goodacre 1856-1938 Discoveries ~ libration Moon 59% Moon

RAF : Dec 1941 – Dec 1945 Aircrew Branch Wellington

Philip Corneille FRAS Hugh Percy Wilkins 1896-1960 ‘Oscar’ 30 cm Newtonian Director BAA Lunar Section Nov 1951 1948 Moore = secretary

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 1954 : Patrick Moore Science editor New Yourk Herald Tribune No such feature... 30 July 1953 10 cm f/15 refractor 18 days Moon Mare Crisium edge of Proclus crater

Philip Corneille FRAS Proclus

Aristarchus

Copernicus

Kepler

Tycho Philip Corneille FRAS

April 19584 cm refractor Meudon Obs

Origin Moon Origin Moon craters Far Side of the Moon TLP

Philip Corneille FRAS April 19584 cm refractor Meudon Obs

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

Philip Corneille FRAS April 19584 cm refractor Meudon Obs

MIDAS – Moon Impacts Detection & Analysis Software (1999 Spain) NELIOTA – NEO Lunar Impact Monitoring (2015 Greece) Philip Corneille FRAS 1948 : BIS - British Interplanetary Society 1952 : BIS council 1953 : Guide to the Moon 1st non-fiction book 1956 : First editor BIS Spaceflight magazine

Philip Corneille FRAS 1956 : 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

Philip Corneille FRAS 3X 15 minutes “Live” episodes

1957: 24 April 1957 Comet Arend-Roland & Lunar Eclipse 22 May 1957 Comet Arend-Roland photography 20 June 1957 June NightSky Philip Corneille FRAS

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

Philip Corneille FRAS 1958: Libration drawings Patrick Moore Russians  Far side Moon 1959: Luna 3 1965: Zond 3

Philip Corneille FRAS 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) Philip Corneille FRAS 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

Philip Corneille FRAS 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

Philip Corneille FRAS 1965 - 1968: Director Armagh Obs & Planetarium N-Ireland

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

Philip Corneille FRAS Farthings Selsey East-Sussex GB

Philip Corneille FRAS 31cm Newtonian Alt-Az mounting

Moon & planets

Philip Corneille FRAS 38,1 cm Newtonian Fullerscope Equatorial fork mount 12,5 cm Cooke refractor Equatorial mount

Philip Corneille FRAS Philip Corneille FRAS Nov 1973 Jul 1979

Jan 1986 Aug 1989

P. Corneille FRAS 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

Philip Corneille FRAS

Historical astronomical events & observatories

Philip Corneille FRAS 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

Philip Corneille FRAS 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 Philip Corneille FRAS 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

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

Philip Corneille FRAS 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 Philip Corneille FRAS March 2015

2014 : Museum ~ FarThings ? Jonathan Culshaw Paul Abel Pete Lawrence Lucie Green Chris North 2015 : March ~ May BBC 4 Radio Play “ Far Side of the Moore “ 2nd Biography

Philip Corneille FRAS October 2015

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

Philip Corneille FRAS 2016 : Chicester Planetarium waxwork statue + refractor London Science Museum permanent section PMHT : financial support outreach 2023 : Centennial birthday

Philip Corneille FRAS 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!

Philip Corneille FRAS R.I.P. Sir Patrick Moore FRS FRAS FBIS 4 Mar 1923 – 9 Dec 2012

Philip Corneille FRAS