1958

The Sky at Night1958

1958
12 Episodes

Episodes

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S02E01

The Winter Sky

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

08 Jan 1958
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S02E02

Radio Astronomy

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

05 Feb 1958
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S02E03

The Plough

Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

05 Mar 1958
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S02E04

Penumbral Eclipse

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

02 Apr 1958
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S02E05

The Moon

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

30 Apr 1958
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S02E06

Jupiter

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

28 May 1958
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S02E07

Dwarf and Giant Stars

Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

20 Jun 1958
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S02E08

Moon Missions

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

23 Jul 1958
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S02E09

Telescopes

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.

20 Aug 1958
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S02E10

The Universe

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

17 Sept 1958
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S02E11

Mars

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

17 Nov 1958
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S02E12

The Craters on the Moon

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.

15 Dec 1958