Episodes 12

1 The Winter Sky

January 8, 1958

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

2 Radio Astronomy

February 5, 1958

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

3 The Plough

March 5, 1958

Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

4 Penumbral Eclipse

April 2, 1958

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

5 The Moon

April 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 Jupiter

May 28, 1958

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

7 Dwarf and Giant Stars

June 20, 1958

Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

8 Moon Missions

July 23, 1958

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

9 Telescopes

August 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 The Universe

September 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 Mars

November 17, 1958

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

12 The Craters on the Moon

December 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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