Amateur Astronomers - Patrick Moore, John Broughton, Robert Todd Lincoln, John Dobson, Andrew Lowe, Richard Dunthorne, Karl Guthe Jansky (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Patrick Moore, John Broughton, Robert Todd Lincoln, John Dobson, Andrew Lowe, Richard Dunthorne, Karl Guthe Jansky, Russell W. Porter, Jack B. Newton, Walter Berg, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Robert Evans, Steve Mandel, Kamil Hornoch, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Michiel Daniel Overbeek, Michael D. Reynolds, Oscar Monnig, Albert F. A. L. Jones, Gregg Thompson, Edward A. Halbach, John Diebel, William D. Ferris, Anton Vamplew, Aarne Arvonen, Jay U. Gunter, Judica-Cordiglia brothers, Hugh Percy Wilkins, Agnes Giberne, Terence Dickinson, Axel Firsoff, Donald C. Parker, Nik Szymanek, Arthur Butler Phillips Mee, Stephen J. Edberg, Richard D. Lines, Richard Huziak, Tim Hunter, Otto Kippes, Francis Charles McMath, Walter H. Haas, Gao Xing, Tippy D'Auria, Charles Elmer, Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth, P. Devadas, Paul Baize, Ben Mayer, Helen Calvert Lines, Christoph Arnold, James M. Roe, William Radcliffe Birt, William Tyler Olcott, Arto Oksanen, Walter Frederick Gale, Leslie Peltier, Mel Bartels, Paul Boltwood, Casimir Marie Gaudibert, Kyle E. Smalley, James McMahon, Peter Francis Williams, Stefano Valentini, Yuji Hyakutake, Arthur Francis O'Donel Alexander. Excerpt: Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS (born 4 March 1923 in Pinner) is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject, and who is credited as having done more than any other to raise the profile of astronomy among the British general public. He is a former president of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and former president of the Society for Popular Astronomy or SPA, author of over 70 books on astronomy, and presenter of the longest-running television series (with the same original presenter) in the world, The Sky at Night...