The Sky at Night first broadcast date and the name being Latin for "The Sky at Night". In February 2007, the Royal Mail issued a set of six astronomy stamps to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the programme. In the "Guinness Book of World Records", Patrick Moore is listed as the most prolific TV presenter in the world, having hosted all but one episode of the programme between 1957 and January 2013. A DVD of the special commemorative "Sky at Night" film "Apollo 11: A Night to Remember" was released on 6 July 2009 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first man
Patrick Moore the University of Cambridge, citing a wish to "stand on my own two feet". He wrote his first book, "Guide to the Moon" (later retitled "Patrick Moore on the Moon") in 1952 and it was published a year later. He wrote it on a 1908 Woodstock typewriter, which he used for every book he published. He was a teacher in Woking and at Holmewood House School in Langton Green, from 1945 to 1953. His second book was a translation of a work of French astronomer Gérard de Vaucouleurs (Moore spoke fluent French). After his second original science book, "Guide to