On 10 December 2012 09:24, David C. Partridge <[email protected]> wrote: > Related to time-nuttery as astonomical observation was used for time-keeping > until C20. > > Sir Patrick Moore, the great amateur astonomer died yesterday at the age of > 89.
Although considered an amateur, I assume he got paid for presenting The Sky At Night. According to Wikipediat at least, he was an author of over 70 books on astronomy. So perhaps amateur is not quite the right word. > A gentleman, astronomer, and true scholar. His death was predicatable as > he's been very ill for a long time, but nonetheless a great loss. I think the death of us is all predictable! But I sorry to hear of his passing away. I suspect there are a good few people who have astronomy PhDs, which would not have studied astronomy if it was not for Patrick Moore. He certainly insprired me to buy a telescope (4.5" reflector), but I never studied the subject professionally. > Regards, > David Partridge Dave _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
