Talk:Patrick Moore
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I reinstated the external link to the "Patrick Moore plays the Xylophone" flash animation. It's consistently one of the top ten results for a Google search for "Patrick Moore" (depending on the exact search terms -- it's #3 for "Patrick Moore UK"), and is in fact the reason I came here to look him up. Assuming I'm not unique, the flash animation may be the way many non-UK residents come to hear of this fascinating gentleman. I myself intend no disrespect, and the animation itself doesn't appear to do so either, although not being British myself I admit it's possible I'm missing some subtle bit of inuendo. Saucepan 18:59, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
- I don't think it is in any way deragatory: initially I removed it because it is non-encyclopedic. By now it no longer is, as indeed the Flash animation for 'Patrick Moore' is 6th in Google, and 'Patrick Moore UK' was 2nd just now. Anárion 07:38, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
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Nottingham Connection
Here in Nottingham (UK) I researched a local amateur astronomer named Thomas Bush (1839-1928) who spent much of his life building telescopes. To be brief, his biggest telescope was a 24 inch reflector that was set up at Fredrick Hanbury's private observatory in East Grinsted. It was still in use in 1927. Bush died in 1928, the telescope was dismantled. At the end of that year a young Patrick Moore took over this observatory on Hanbury's invite. He saw Bush's telescope their, and still owns Bush's observational log book, and many photographs of the site.
May I add the subject Thomas W. Bush to site as an extention to Patrick Moore's page? I do have two old photo's of Bush with his 24 inch telescope at Hanbury's East Grinsted observatory, but I am unable to upload them!
Richard Pearson richard_pearson2@yahoo.co.uk.
Patrick Moore - ecentricity and authorship
Apart from the monocle Patrick is well recognised by British TV audiences for his bushy (and fairly straggly) eyebrows and the way they tend to waggle around. Very distracting at times.
He has some other Science Fiction titles to his credit, although I suspect he'd rather forget about them. "World of Mists" (Frederic Muller, 1956) and the earlier "Quest of the Spaceways" are very much childrens adventure books and hopelessly outdated by more recent astronomy and space science. Despite that they are an interesting record of opinions at the time.
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PATRICK MOORE PLAYS THE XYLOPHONE
- Yes, we know -- the article says so! -- Arwel 15:32, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
"Eccentricity"
This article is far too obsessed with Moore's eccentricity, one-off media appearances and other trvia, and not interested enough in his work.