He presented the first edition of The Sky at Night on 24 April 1957.
Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, host of the long-running The Sky at Night, has died at the age of 89.
The astronomer Sir Patrick Moore was also awarded an honorary fellowship in recognition of his long-running BBC TV programme, The Sky at Night.
Sir Patrick presented the BBC programme The Sky At Night for over 50 years, making him the longest-running host of the same television show ever.
He took the competitive, empirical drive with which Florentine painters had been looking at the world and used it to look at the night sky.
Lying on the dirt floor of my room looking up at the night sky, I would pray, "Please let me have a pretty doll, " whenever I spotted a shooting star.
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The mountains shimmer blue when the sun hits the eucalyptus vapors from the trees, at night, the dense star patterns of the Southern Hemisphere sky also shimmer in the clearest skies, and crossing the path to your cottage at night, you may well encounter a wombat, wallaby or kangaroo the 4000 acres are filled with them.
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Solar eruptions trigger aurorae on Earth, filling the night sky at high latitudes with dancing lights.
The park attracts a lot of foot traffic, and the telescopes draw in curious passers-by to stop for a few moments to stare up at the night sky.
He leaves the telescope at home and stares into the endless night sky with the naked eye.
Seeing the phantom-like outline of the Dolomites against the night sky, it feels harder to sneer at stories of witches, sorcerers and secret gates to the underworld.
The day ended early for BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica, who appeared to suffer an engine failure as he accelerated out of the hairpin at Turn Seven - sending thick white smoke into the Abu Dhabi night sky.
They have found a number of places, both in the night sky and in the laboratory, where the nature of space and time at the Planck scale would have indirect, but observable effects.
"He brought astronomy to the attention of a very wide public and was a very good communicator too - that's why Sky at Night ran so long and so successfully, " says astronomer Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
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