Episode guide
The Sky at Night: 1982
12 episodes · premiered Jan 10, 1982
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- Episode 1: The Winter Sky Jan 10, 1982 Yesterday evening there was a lunar eclipse. The moon passed fully into the earth's shadow from 7.15 until 8.35 pm and the eclipse should have been seen well from all over Britain and…
- Episode 2: The Changing Face of Venus Feb 7, 1982 Venus has always been a planet of surprises, and very recently the Pioneer spacecraft orbiting the planet have provided some more. There is evidence of current active volcanoes, very…
- Episode 3: The Largest Star? Mar 14, 1982 Close to the brilliant star Capella, in the constellation of Auriga, there is a particularly interesting star, Epsilon Aurigae. We know it is made up of two stars, but we can only see one…
- Episode 4: When Planets Loop the Loop Apr 4, 1982 During evenings in April three bright planets-Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - are very conspicuous, with Venus still prominent in the east before dawn. Patrick Moore explains how these planets…
- Episode 5: The Unfolding Universe Apr 25, 1982 In this special programme to mark the 25th anniversary of The Sky at Night, Patrick Moore reports on what's happening at great observatories all over the world; he talks to space…
- Episode 6: The Depths of Space May 16, 1982 Astronomers in Australia have just discovered an object which may be the most remote and luminous known to man. It is a quasar, apparently 13,000 million light years from us. Yet some…
- Episode 7: La Palma: a New Observatory Jun 6, 1982 La Palma, in the Canary Isles, is a picturesque place. It is also ideal as a site for large telescopes, and it is here that a major observatory is being established. It is linked with the…
- Episode 8: The Hunt for the Tenth Planet Jul 19, 1982 Is there a new planet in the solar system? Many astronomers believe that there is a massive body beyond Neptune, the outermost of the main planets now known: it could be a planet, but it…
- Episode 9: Siding Spring Aug 22, 1982 Siding Spring Mountain in New South Wales is the site of one of the world's most sophisticated observatories. All the southern sky is available for study, and the AAT, or Anglo-Australian…
- Episode 10: The Mystery of the Spiral Arm Sep 26, 1982 Why are some galaxies, such as ours, spiral in form like huge Catherine wheels, and why are stars born inside these arms? Patrick Moore and Dr John Beck -man of Queen Mary College talk…
- Episode 11: The Cosmic Serpent Oct 31, 1982 Can comets have collided with the earth? According to a new theory by Dr Clube and Dr Napier from the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, collisions can happen, and it was one such event which…
- Episode 12: The Last Man on the Moon Dec 6, 1982 Less than four years after Neil Armstrong made his 'one small step ...', Commander Eugene Cernan became the last man on the moon. In December 1972 when Challenger, the lunar module of…