One of their most famous guest speakers in recent years was Sky at Night presenter Sir Patrick Moore.
Sir Patrick Moore was a "true icon, " the chairman of the Isle of Man's Astronomical society has said.
Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, host of the long-running The Sky at Night, has died at the age of 89.
With his boundless energy and many interests, Patrick Moore could have made a fortune, but he said his astronomy would have suffered.
The astronomer Sir Patrick Moore was also awarded an honorary fellowship in recognition of his long-running BBC TV programme, The Sky at Night.
One of the busiest has been Patrick Moore, an ecologist who helped to found Greenpeace and was one of its top men for 15 years.
Some environmentalists retain their antipathy to it, but green gurus such as James Lovelock, Stewart Brand and Patrick Moore have changed their minds and embraced it.
Not long afterwards, Sir Patrick Moore called him to give him advice on telescopes and such, and despite being football fans, we thought getting a phone call from Patrick Moore was so much cooler than David Beckham... we were never particularly cool at school!
"He was not a professionally trained astronomer and yet did professional quality work, particularly when it came to mapping the Moon in the 1950s - I think every astronomer in the world owes something to Patrick Moore, " said ex-BBC science correspondent and fellow astronomer Dr David Whitehouse .
Coetzee, Joan Didion, Tadeusz Konwicki, Aleksandar Hemon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lorrie Moore, Doris Lessing, Patrick Chamoiseau, to name a few.
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