Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore was born in Pinner in Middlesex, the child of a Captain and his wife. He was raised in East Grinstead and educated at home due to chronic health problems. He joined the British Astronomical Association at eleven years of age. When he was 14, his mentor at the observatory in East Grinstead was killed, and Moore was asked to run the observatory.
In 1941, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. In 1943, while Moore was training abroad, his fiancée was killed by a bomb in London. In 1944, he returned to England, and was posted as the navigator of a Vickers Wellington bomber in Cumbria. After the war, he taught school from 1945-1953. His first book, Guide to the Moon (later retitled Patrick Moore on the Moon), was published in 1953. He wrote and translated several books of astronomy and fiction, including the late 1970s series the Scott Saunders Space Adventure. In the 1957, he began a television show on the BBC network about astronomy, The Sky at Night, which aired monthly until his death in 2012 and made him the longest-serving TV presenter.
Moore was president of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and president of the Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA), author of over 70 books on astronomy. His specialty was Moon observation.
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The amateur astronomer
10 editions - first published in 1957 -
Guide to Mars
8 editions - first published in 1956 -
The amateur astronomer
8 editions - first published in 1957 -
Year Book of Astronomy
7 editions - first published in 1982 -
The sky at night
7 editions - first published in 1968 -
Moon flight atlas
5 editions - first published in 1969 -
Naked-eye astronomy
5 editions - first published in 1966 -
Guide to the planets
5 editions - first published in 1954 -
The atlas of the universe
5 editions - first published in 1970 -
The return of Halley's comet
4 editions - first published in 1984 -
Astronomy
4 editions - first published in 1964 -
Caverns of the moon
4 editions - first published in 1964 -
Philip's atlas of the universe
4 editions - first published in 1999 -
Starry Sky
4 editions - first published in 1995 -
The picture history of astronomy
4 editions - first published in 1961 -
The sky at night
4 editions - first published in 1965 -
Space
4 editions - first published in 1968 -
Guide to the moon
4 editions - first published in 1953 -
Astronomy
3 editions - first published in 1961 -
The planet Venus
3 editions - first published in 1956 -
1989 Yearbook of Astronomy
3 editions - first published in 1988 -
Stargazing
3 editions - first published in 2000 -
Your book of astronomy
3 editions - first published in 1958 -
Wanderer in space
3 editions - first published in 1961 -
The Planet Neptune
3 editions - first published in 1988 -
Philip's atlas of the universe
3 editions - first published in 1994 -
Suns, myths and men
3 editions - first published in 1954 -
Guide to the stars
3 editions - first published in 1960 -
Moon flight atlas
3 editions - first published in 1968 -
Raiders of Mars
3 editions - first published in 1959 -
Atlas of the universe
3 editions - first published in 1970 -
Exploring the world
3 editions - first published in 1966 -
Can you speak Venusian?
3 editions - first published in 1972 -
Guide to the stars
3 editions - first published in 1960 -
The Guinness book of astronomy
3 editions - first published in 1988 -
Science and fiction
3 editions - first published in 1970 -
The sun
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The planets
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Exploring the night sky with binoculars
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A-Z of astronomy
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The next fifty years in space
3 editions - first published in 1976 -
Peril on Mars
3 editions - first published in 1965 -
Young Astronomer and His Telescope
2 editions - first published in 1974 -
Comets
2 editions - first published in 1976 -
The wandering astronomer
2 editions - first published in 1999 -
Suns, myths and men
2 editions - first published in 1968 -
Space in the sixties
2 editions - first published in 1963 -
Fun to Know About the Mysteries of Space (Fun-to-know-about)
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Year Book of Astronomy
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1992 Yearbook of Astronomy
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Beyond Shame
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
The Great Astronomical Revolution
2 editions - first published in 1995 -
1993 Yearbook of Astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1992 -
Science and Fiction
2 editions - first published in 1957 -
Stars and Planets
2 editions - first published in 1988 -
The great astronomical revolution
2 editions - first published in 1994 -
Stargazing
2 editions - first published in 1985 -
Astronomy for the under tens
2 editions - first published in 1986 -
Mission to the planets
2 editions - first published in 1990 -
Patrick Moore's passion for astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1991 -
Travellers in space and time
2 editions - first published in 1983 -
Captives of the moon
2 editions - first published in 1960 -
Crater of fear
2 editions - first published in 1962 -
The planet Venus
2 editions - first published in 1959 -
A guide to the planets
2 editions - first published in 1971 -
The observer's book of astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1974 -
Mars
2 editions - first published in 1973 -
The development of astronomical thought
2 editions - first published in 1969 -
Exploring the moon
2 editions - first published in 1964 -
Astronomy for O Level
2 editions - first published in 1970 -
Basic astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
1986 yearbook of astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1985 -
Legends of the stars
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
Stars and space
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
Space
2 editions - first published in 1968 -
The astronomy of Birr Castle
2 editions - first published in 1971 -
The observer's book of astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1962 -
Planet of fire
2 editions - first published in 1969 -
Guide to Mars
2 editions - first published in 1956 -
Peril on Mars
2 editions - first published in 1958 -
Guide to the moon
2 editions - first published in 1953 -
Invader from space
2 editions - first published in 1963 -
Firefly atlas of the universe
2 editions - first published in 2003 -
The Guinness book of astronomy facts & feats
2 editions - first published in 1979 -
The stars
2 editions - first published in 1962 -
Exploring other planets
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
Legends of the planets
2 editions - first published in 1976 -
The development of astronomical thought
2 editions - first published in 1969 -
The craters of the Moon
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
Earth satellites
2 editions - first published in 1956 -
Naked-eye astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
The amateur astronomer's glossary
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
The astronomy of Southern Africa
2 editions - first published in 1977 -
Basic astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
The observer's book of astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1964 -
Man the astronomer
2 editions - first published in 1973 -
Peril on Mars
2 editions - first published in 1965 -
Patrick Moore's pocket guide to the stars and planets
2 editions - first published in 1980 -
Amateur astronomy
2 editions - first published in 1968 -
Mission to the Planets
2 editions - first published in 1990
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