RIP Sir Patrick Moore: a life in photos

RIP Sir Patrick Moore. You were the BBC TV astronomer with the looks of a Bond villain. You presented the BBC programme The Sky At Night for at least 50 years. You were the longest-running host of the same television show in history. You were a star when TV was not on 24-hours a day. We watched when nothing else was on. But you kept us tuned in and you were TV’s most famous xylophone player:

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File photo dated 05/02/2007 of the British astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore at his home in Selsey, surrounded by globes of the Earth, Mars, the Moon and various other planets on the occasion of Royal Mail launching a series of six stamps with the theme of the Sky At Night, Sir Patrick Moore has died at his home at the age of 89.