Table of Contents

Patrick’s Best Mates.- Memories of Patrick.- 1956 and the BBC.- Memorable Books and Magazines.- Patrick’s Pseudonyms, Letters and Postcards.- Farthings: A Guided Tour.- Eclipse Trips and Foreign Adventures.- A Red Book, a Spoof and a 56th Birthday.- Patrick's Observations.- Post 2012 Developments.- Appendix.- Index.

About the Author

Martin Mobberley holds a BSc in Electronic Engineering from Brunel University and worked as an electronics/software engineer for Marconi for 22 years. He is the author of eight practical astronomy books and one major biography for Springer, as well as three small children’s space books with Top That! Publishing. He has authored over 300 articles for Astronomy Now, The Journal of the British Astronomical Association, BBC Sky at Night and various other publications. He is the author of the Comet, Eclipse and Minor Planet sections of Macmillan’s ‘Patrick Moore Yearbook of Astronomy’ and the former president of the British Astronomical Association (BAA). Martin was the BAA Goodacre Medal winner of 2000 and appeared as a guest on Patrick Moore’s Sky at Night TV program a total of ten times. He was a personal friend of Sir Patrick Moore for 30 years.