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RIP Heather Couper

  • 20-02-2020 5:51pm
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    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,557 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    It was with great sadness today that I learned of the passing of Dr Heather Couper, British astronomer and television presenter.

    Heather was a superb broadcaster with a deep knowledge and passion who inspired a generation of children and young people to get involved in astronomy and space exploration in the 1980s and 1990s.

    Rest in Peace among the stars Heather...

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-51562165


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    She was clearly being lined up to replace Patrick Moore on The Sky at Night but he refused to go quietly so the program format stayed frozen in time with it's ever ageing host and it was shuffled off to a graveyard slot in the TV schedule.

    It's all very well to refer to him as an 'institution' but nobody is indspensible and Moore staying on for as long as he did meant that an entire generation of young people growing up in the 90s and 2000s probably never saw The Sky at Night or if they did, they probably thought it was a rerun of an Open University class from the 1970s.

    Moore did great things for the public appreciation of astronomy but he should have retired back in the 1990s (when he was in his 70s) and let someone younger (like Heather C.) take over so that the progam could be revamped in order to appeal to the next generation.

    There, I've said it.


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