Patrick Moore's death reminds me of a guy called Geoffrey Perry (who died in 2000) who was a science teacher at Kettering Grammar School. Geoffrey Perry followed events in space with rudimentary equipment (a coat hangar featured in one piece of equipment), momitored and gave evidence to the US Senate on Russian progress in space. He also fired the imagination of generations of youngsters, some of whom went on to careers in the space industry - I have no doubt GP and PM are shering a couple of beers in the celestial bar. RIP