The Sky at Night - Season 2

First aired: 1/8/1958 12 episodes
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Episodes

1. The Winter Sky

Aired: 1/8/1958

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

2. Radio Astronomy

Aired: 2/5/1958

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

3. The Plough

Aired: 3/5/1958

Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

4. Penumbral Eclipse

Aired: 4/2/1958

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

5. The Moon

Aired: 4/30/1958

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

Aired: 5/28/1958

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

7. Dwarf and Giant Stars

Aired: 6/20/1958

Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

8. Moon Missions

Aired: 7/23/1958

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

9. Telescopes

Aired: 8/20/1958

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

Aired: 9/17/1958

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

11. Mars

Aired: 11/17/1958

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

12. The Craters on the Moon

Aired: 12/15/1958

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.