Episode guide
The Sky at Night: 1987
13 episodes · premiered Jan 18, 1987
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- Episode 1: Photographing the Sky Jan 18, 1987 Can you take astronomical photographs with limited equipment? The surprising answer is yes. Though such pictures cannot rival those of professional astronomers or skilled, well-equipped…
- Episode 2: The Study of Variable Stars Feb 8, 1987 Studies of variable stars form a very important part of the work of modern amateur astronomers. In this programme, Patrick Moore describes how the amateurs work and also gives the latest…
- Episode 3: Stellar Catastrophe Mar 15, 1987 On 24 February a supernova blazed out in the Large Cloud of Magellan, which is the brightest of the external star-systems though unfortunately too far south to be seen from Britain. The…
- Episode 4: A Celebration Apr 24, 1987 The Sky at Night is now 30 years old; the first programme was transmitted on 24 April 1957, before the space age began. Much has happened in those three decades. Rockets have been to the…
- Episode 5: Air on Other Worlds May 18, 1987 We depend upon our atmosphere, without it, no life on earth could have appeared. Other worlds, too, have atmospheres of various kinds, some of them dense and corrosive, others incredibly…
- Episode 6: High Moon Jun 14, 1987 The Earth and the Moon travel together round the Sun, but the movements of the Moon itself are not so straightforward as might be thought. Patrick Moore and Dr Ron Maddison discuss the…
- Episode 7: The William Herschel Telescope Jul 12, 1987 Coming into operation shortly is a telescope that is not only one of the largest in the world, but probably the most accurate. The William Herschel telescope is on the summit of an extinct…
- Episode 8: The Roof of the World Aug 8, 1987 A great new telescope has just come into operation at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, almost 14,000 feet above sea level. It is the James Clerk Maxwell. Telescope, a sort of radio…
- Episode 9: The Hunt for Planet Ten Sep 6, 1987 Is there a tenth planet? New evidence seems to indicate that there is in fact an extra member of the solar system, moving far beyond the paths of the most distant planets now known, Pluto…
- Episode 10: The Exploding Star Sep 27, 1987 In February of this year a supernova burst out in a neighbouring galaxy and became visible to the naked eye. It has provided astronomers with all kinds of problems. Patrick Moore talks to…
- Episode 11: Jodrell - The Listening Bank Oct 18, 1987 Thirty years after its completion, the most famous radio telescope in the world - the 250 foot 'dish' at Jodrell Bank - was officially renamed The Lovell Telescope in honour of its…
- Episode 12: A Telescope for Christmas? Nov 15, 1987 Do you want to own an astronomical telescope? If so, you must take great care before purchasing. Patrick Moore offers advice to would-be buyers, and warns of some of the pitfalls.
- Episode 13: Where Are the Stars? Dec 13, 1987 What are the exact positions of the stars in the sky? How do they move, and how far away are they? These are the problems which will be studied from Hipparcos, an artificial satellite due…