And so, just like that, we arrived at our final lecture of the 2025/26 season. Firstly, Mike Meynell treated us to a short talk on the Caldwell Catalogue, compiled by the late Sir Patrick Moore in 1995. Mike outlined that, as well as being a broadcasting legend, Patrick Moore had a background as an expert cartographer whose lunar maps were used by both NASA and the Soviets. Astronomical catalogues are inventories of the sky and date back over 2,000 years. They provide a unive
