The Sky at Night - 1958
1 - The Winter Sky
Air Date: January 8, 1958
Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.
2 - Radio Astronomy
Air Date: February 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
Air Date: March 5, 1958
Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.
4 - Penumbral Eclipse
Air Date: April 2, 1958
Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.
5 - The Moon
Air Date: April 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
Air Date: May 28, 1958
Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.
7 - Dwarf and Giant Stars
Air Date: June 20, 1958
Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.
8 - Moon Missions
Air Date: July 23, 1958
Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.
9 - Telescopes
Air Date: August 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
Air Date: September 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
Air Date: November 17, 1958
Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.
12 - The Craters on the Moon
Air Date: December 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.