It is not necessary to have a large telescope in order to take a real interest in the night sky. Binoculars will show a great deal. Patrick Moore takes viewers on a "guided tour".
Dr. David Malin of the Anglo-Australian Observatory in New South Wales has developed revolutionary new techniques for photographing the stars. Today he shows Patrick Moore some of the spectacular pictures he has taken recently.
35th anniversary of the first transmission of The Sky at Night. Patrick Moore has continued to present the programme ever since. Tonight he reports on the influence the space age has had on people's understanding and knowledge of astronomy
The Astronomer Royal, Professor Arnold Wolfendale , joins Patrick Moore to discuss the latest information received from the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, COBE.
A look at the outer giant planets, Uranus and Neptune. The Voyager probe missions that by-passed Uranus and Neptune were covered by Sky at Night at the time. Further analysis has since been carried out, and Patrick sums up the new findings
The Giotto spacecraft encountered Halley's Comet in 1986 and escaped. Giotto recently made close-range studies of the comet Grigg-Skellerup. Patrick and Dr. John Mason are joined by Susan McKenna-Lawlor to discuss the problems of comets.
Patrick Moore studies the Great Spiral in Andromeda, a huge galaxy containing more than 100,000 million stars and located two million light-years away.
Professor Sir Francis Graham-Smith joins Patrick Moore to discuss the latest findings on the Crab Nebula, a gas cloud marking the remnant of the supernova which blazed out in the year 1054.
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By what name was The Sky at Night (1957) officially released in Canada in English?