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 17/08/1969 of the British astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore wearing a white Stetson hat which he got from the Astronauts Centre at Houston during a visit to Texas, Sir Patrick Moore has died at his home at the age of 89.