Episode guide
The Sky at Night: 1978
14 episodes · premiered Jan 11, 1978
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- Episode 1: Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars Jan 11, 1978 Good astronomical telescopes are very expensive today, but there are many objects in the night sky which can be viewed with binoculars. For example, during winter evenings the…
- Episode 2: The Nearest Galaxies Feb 8, 1978 What is the most remote object ever visible with the naked eye? The answer is: the Great Spiral in Andromeda, which is a member of our Local Group of galaxies, but is still very remote…
- Episode 3: The New Mars Mar 8, 1978 The Viking space-probes have been operating on Mars for almost one Martian year (nearly two Earth years). We do not yet know whether life in any form exists there but many scientific…
- Episode 4: Suns, Space-Ships and Bug-Eyed Monsters Mar 27, 1978 Ever since the days of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, science fiction and space exploration have been closely linked, and over the last 100 years science fiction has often become science…
- Episode 5: The Asteroids Apr 4, 1978 The asteroids or minor planets are among the most interesting of the junior members in the Solar System. Only one - Vesta - is ever visible without a telescope, but thousands are now known…
- Episode 6: Birth of a Star May 17, 1978 How is a star born? We believe that with our telescopes we can see where fresh stars are being created. In this programme Patrick Moore talks about stellar birth, how a star develops and…
- Episode 7: Astronomers' View of the Earth Jun 8, 1978 Far from being exceptional, our earth is an ordinary planet moving around an ordinary star. From space it looks like a coloured globe as men have seen it from the surface of the moon. In…
- Episode 8: Gamma Ray Astronomy Jun 28, 1978 Gamma ray astronomy is a new science; as yet we do not know as much as we would like about these strange, high penetration rays which come from deep space. Patrick Moore discusses gamma…
- Episode 9: The Edge of the Solar System Jun 26, 1978 The outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, are now visible in the evening sky. Do these worlds mark the real edge of the Solar System? There have been suggestions that an undiscovered…
- Episode 10: Question and Answer Aug 23, 1978 What effect does the moon have on the tides? How do I recognise the constellations? What is a shooting star? Is there life on other worlds? If I want to take up astronomy, how should I go…
- Episode 11: Does Anything Ever Happen on the Moon? Sep 14, 1978 The moon has long been regarded as a dead world; but is this completely true? Astronomers have described faint coloured patches and local ' fogs', which are sometimes thought to be gases…
- Episode 12: Where Did Life Begin? Oct 11, 1978 According to a new and revolutionary idea life did not originate on Earth but was brought here as organisms from outer space. Patrick Moore talks to Sir Fred Hoyle and Professor Chandra…
- Episode 13: Exploded Star Nov 15, 1978 Six thousand light-years away in space lies the Crab Nebula, a patch of spreading gas which is all that is left of a star which was seen to explode in 1054. The most famous of all…
- Episode 14: The Alignment of the Planets Dec 12, 1978 The two giant planets Jupiter and - Saturn are now visible in the late evening sky. Rocket probes are on their way to both, as the alignment of the outer planets between now and the early…