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The Sky at Night1958

Episodes

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    E01 The Winter Sky

    Jan 8, 1958

    Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.

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    E02 Radio Astronomy

    Feb 5, 1958

    Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.

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    E03 The Plough

    Mar 5, 1958

    Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

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    E04 Penumbral Eclipse

    Apr 2, 1958

    Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.

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    E05 The Moon

    Apr 30, 1958

    Tonight Patrick Moore is at the Hampstead Observatory. If weather conditions are suitable television cameras will bring live pictures of the moon's surface.

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    E06 Jupiter

    May 28, 1958

    Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.

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    E07 Dwarf and Giant Stars

    Jun 20, 1958

    Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

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    E08 Moon Missions

    Jul 23, 1958

    Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.

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    E09 Telescopes

    Aug 20, 1958

    Patrick Moore talks about old and new telescopes with A. H. Degenhardt, and shows some of the things which the new telescopes can reveal-for instance, about the Andromeda Galaxy, whose light takes nearly two million years to reach us.

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    E10 The Universe

    Sep 17, 1958

    Patrick Moore talks to America's foremost astronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley, about his theories on the size and scale of the universe.

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    E11 Mars

    Nov 17, 1958

    Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.

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    E12 The Craters on the Moon

    Dec 15, 1958

    Patrick Moore and Dr. Gilbert Fielder discuss the recent report by a Russian astronomer of an eruption on the moon, and what it reveals about the moon's origin and present state.

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