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The Sky at Night

1958 · 12 episodes · Jan 8, 1958

  1. Episode 1

    The Winter Sky

    Jan 8, 1958

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

  2. Episode 2

    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.

  3. Episode 3

    The Plough

    Mar 5, 1958

    Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

  4. Episode 4

    Penumbral Eclipse

    Apr 2, 1958

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

  5. Episode 5

    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.

  6. Episode 6

    Jupiter

    May 28, 1958

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

  7. Episode 7

    Dwarf and Giant Stars

    Jun 20, 1958

    Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

  8. Episode 8

    Moon Missions

    Jul 23, 1958

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

  9. Episode 9

    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.

  10. Episode 10

    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.

  11. Episode 11

    Mars

    Nov 17, 1958

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

  12. Episode 12

    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.