It is far too late this evening to reply in detail to your amusing post, although I have read (and enjoyed) Mary Jackson's article - Lynne Truss wrote a similarly humorous and interesting book.
As a matter of principle, however, I am tempted to insist that, in so far as it concerns the late Sir Bernard Lovell, and especially in the context of the book extract quoted, it may (as opposed to might) well be considered pedantic to argue whether he was an astronomer or an astrologer.