The Sky at Night(1957)

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.