Amateur astronomy
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Amateur astronomy is a hobby where participants enjoy observing, studying, or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, telescopes, and other gadgets. Although scientific
Amateur astronomers watch the night sky during the Perseid meteor shower.
Amateur astronomer recording observations of the sun.
Places like Paranal Observatory offer crystal clear skies for observing astronomical objects with or without instruments.
An image of the Cat's Paw Nebula created combining the work of professional and amateur astronomers. The image is the combination of the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile and a 0.4-meter amateur telescope.
Patrick Moore
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Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore was an English astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
Amateur astronomy
…David H. Levy discovered or co-discovered 22 comets including Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, the most for any individual. Sir Patrick Moore (1923–2012), presenter of the BBC's long-running The Sky at Night and author of many books on astronomy. Jack Newton (1942-2025), Canadian developer…
Moore in 2002
Patrick Moore signing his book The Astronomy of Birr Castle at NIHE - 1985
Moore with his co-presenter Chris Lintott and Brian May, astrophysicist and Queen guitarist, at AstroFest in 2007
Bronze bust of Moore at the National Space Centre, Leicester