On Thu, 27 May 2004 12:18:38 +0100, Pete Lawrence
wrote:

I was chatting to PM last night when he started describing his 12 inch
reflector. He just dropped into the conversation that this was the
one he used in the discovery of the Mare Orientale (on the Moon).
What a claim to fame!

Googling it up I see it's credited as being discovered by "Percy
Wilkins and his friend Patrick Moore".


Pete -can I have your autograph pleaeeeese !