* English astronomer and TV presenter Sir Patrick Moore has a cat named Ptolemy.

** The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by astronomer Patrick Moore.

* March 4 – Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer and broadcaster

Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send-ups of the game-show host Hughie Green and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore ( astronomer and broadcaster ) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would do for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later.

There is a part for narrator on pre-recorded video which was played in the original production by Magnus Pyke and in the London production by the noted astronomer and TV personality Sir Patrick Moore.

The English term was popularized by British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore in the 1950s, although he did not invent it.

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS ( born 4 March 1923 ) is an English amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.

The Guinness Book of Astronomy is a book ( ISBN 0-85112-375-9 ) by the British astronomer Sir Patrick Moore.

Sir Patrick Moore is revealed as not an astronomer but a peeping-tom and psychic around the London Eye.

* Sir Patrick Moore, amateur astronomer and broadcaster

Famous wearers today include astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, and former boxer Chris Eubank Abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman wore a monocle mainly for getting a closer look at artworks.

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Knight of the Order of St Patrick ( KP ) ( 17 June 1800 – 31 October 1867 ) was an Anglo-Irish astronomer who had several telescopes built.

It is named after Patrick Moore, the TV astronomer.

In 1980, the party absorbed the anti-immigration United Country Party, which had been chaired by TV astronomer Patrick Moore.

Patrick Moore, astronomer.

The museum's patron is Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer.

* Sir Patrick Moore, an English astronomer

astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, C. B. E.

Notable residents of Selsey include Sir Patrick Moore ( Born 1923 ) – an astronomer, writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter has lived in Selsey since 1968.

The party was formed by Edmund Iremonger, a member of the Conservative Party and the Freedom Association ; noted astronomer Patrick Moore was party chairman.

* Patrick Moore – astronomer

| 24000 Patrickdufour || || Patrick Dufour, French amateur astronomer

The astronomer Patrick Moore looks on somewhat disapprovingly from the left.

| 18572 Rocher || || Patrick Rocher, French astronomer *

His second book was a translation of a work of French astronomer Gérard de Vaucouleurs ( Moore speaks fluent French ).

* Joseph Haines Moore, American astronomer

Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly ( September 24, 1898 – March 3, 1990 ) was an American astronomer.

However it was actually invented around 1675 by astronomer Richard Towneley, and first used by Graham's mentor Thomas Tompion in a clock built for Sir Jonas Moore, and in the two precision regulators he made for the new Greenwich Observatory in 1676, mentioned in correspondence between Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed and Towneley

An on-site operator controls where the telescope points while the remote astronomer controls the instrument and data retrieval.

I want to see institutions like Throop turn out perhaps ninety-nine of every hundred students as men who are to do given pieces of industrial work better than any one else can do them ; I want to see those men do the kind of work that is now being done on the Panama Canal and on the great irrigation projects in the interior of this country — and the one-hundredth man I want to see with the kind of cultural scientific training that will make him and his fellows the matrix out of which you can occasionally develop a man like your great astronomer, George Ellery Hale.

One of the substances discovered in the tail by spectroscopic analysis was the toxic gas cyanogen, which led astronomer Camille Flammarion to claim that, when Earth passed through the tail, the gas " would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.

Rudolf Wolf ( 1816 – 1893 ), Swiss astronomer, carried out historical reconstruction of solar activity back to the seventeenth century

* Rohl's dates for Amenemhat III of the 12th Dynasty in the 17th century BC, has found support in the work of astronomer David Lappin whose research finds matches for a sequence of 37 out of 39 lunar month lengths recorded in 12th Dynasty contracts.

Two pairs of lovers play out a comedy of errors, in which Maggie ( Ryan ) and Sam ( Broderick ), an astronomer, try several unethical and nasty tricks to break apart the envied union of their respective former partners, Anton ( Karyo ) and Linda ( Preston ).

In addition to Brown, the scientific staff comprised the renowned botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bauer ; the gardener Peter Good, whose task was to collect live plants and viable seed for the use of Kew Gardens ; the miner John Allen, appointed as mineralogist ; the landscape artist William Westall ; and the astronomer John Crosley, who would fall ill on the voyage out and leave the ship at the Cape of Good Hope.

Statue of an astronomer and the concept of the cosmic distance ladder by the parallax method, made from the azimuth ring and other parts of the Yale-Columbia Refractor ( telescope ) ( c 1925 ) wrecked by the 2003 Canberra bushfires which burned out the Mount Stromlo Observatory ; at Questacon, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

These studies have revealed that the amount of research an astronomer carries out is related to the per capita gross domestic product ( GDP ) of the country in which he / she is based, and that the number of astronomers in a country is proportional to the GDP of that country, so the total amount of research done in a country is proportional to the square of its GDP divided by its population.

He started out as a painter, but after attending a lecture by the famous French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier turned to astronomy.

Kavelaars, an astronomer at McMaster University, suggested this name to help astronomical nomenclature to get out of its Greco-Romano-Renaissance rut.

Another astronomer there, James W. Christy, consulted with him after discovering bulges in the images of Pluto, which turned out to be Pluto's satellite Charon.

He worked out his theory in collaboration with amateur astronomer and schoolteacher Philipp Fauth whom he met in 1898, and published it as Glazial-Kosmogonie in 1912.

When the Civil War broke out, he tried to join the Union Army ; however, he failed the vision test and spent the War years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working as an assistant to Benjamin Gould ( astronomer and head of Longitude Department of the United States Coast Survey ).

William Herschel left Bath in 1782 to move closer to Windsor in Berkshire to carry out his duties as astronomer to King George III.

* Charles Mason ( 1728 – 1786 ), astronomer, surveyor, laid out the Mason-Dixon Line in 1763

Statue of an astronomer and the concept of the cosmic distance ladder, created by scientist and artist Tim Wetherell, made from the azimuth ring and other parts of the Yale-Columbia Refractor ( telescope ) ( c 1925 ) wrecked by the 2003 Canberra bushfires which burned out the Mount Stromlo Observatory ; at Questacon, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

** The Martian astronomer comes out of the observatory

The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology commissioned astronomer Professor Mike Bessell, Australian National University, to review Carter Observatory ’ s ability to carry out its functions as New Zealand's National Observatory, to explore New Zealand ’ s requirements and the opportunities in the National Observatory area, and assess the roles of the various players within the sector.

After Tycho Brahe had fallen out of favour and left Denmark, Christian Longomontanus had become Christian IV's new astronomer and the first professor of astronomy at the University of Copenhagen.

* 325 BCE Pytheas, a Greek astronomer and geographer, sailed north out of the Mediterranean, reaching England and possibly even Iceland and Norway.

In 1874, he published an edition of the astronomer Āryabhata's work, thus putting out the first publication in nagara script in the Netherlands.

The astronomer looks out of the window, sees a black sheep standing in a field, and remarks, " How odd.

The expedition also was commissioned by the US government to collect astronomical and polar magnetic data, which was carried out by the astronomer Edward Israel, who was part of Greely's crew.