1958
Episodes
1. The Winter Sky
1958-01-08
Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.
2. Radio Astronomy
1958-02-05
Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.
3. The Plough
1958-03-05
Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.
4. Penumbral Eclipse
1958-04-02
Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.
5. The Moon
1958-04-30
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
1958-05-28
Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.
7. Dwarf and Giant Stars
1958-06-20
Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.
8. Moon Missions
1958-07-23
Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.
9. Telescopes
1958-08-20
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
1958-09-17
Patrick Moore talks to America's foremost astronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley, about his theories on the size and scale of the universe.
11. Mars
1958-11-17
Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.
12. The Craters on the Moon
1958-12-15
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.