The Moon
The Sky at Night - 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.
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The Winter Sky
Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.
Radio Astronomy
Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.
The Plough
Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.
Penumbral Eclipse
Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.
The Moon
Tonight Patrick Moore is at the Hampstead Observatory. If weather conditions are suitable television cameras will bring live pictures of the moon's surface.
Jupiter
Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.
Dwarf and Giant Stars
Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.
Moon Missions
Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.
Telescopes
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.
The Universe
Patrick Moore talks to America's foremost astronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley, about his theories on the size and scale of the universe.
Mars
Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.
The Craters on the Moon
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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