Very sad day, Sir Patrick Moore passed away at lunchtime today after apparently suffering a non-recoverable infection caught last week. He passed away peacefully with friends and carers at his home in Selsey which was the location for so many Sky at Night programmes over its 50 years of broadcasting.
To a lot of people Patrick Moore WAS astronomy and he covered the subject from the early days of space exploration and a lot of people have grown up with this most engaging of presenters.