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The Sky At Night

Season 1982 1982
TV-G

  • 1982-01-10T22:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 30m
  • 6h 30m (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary, News
Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) began presenting The Sky at Night in April 1957. Airing a new episode every month, the show continues to explore our solar system and beyond. It is the longest running science show on TV. Many famous people have appeared on The Sky at Night, among them: Harlow Shapley, Carl Sagan and Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. Many astronauts have also appeared, including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Recordings of most of the early episodes no longer exist.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1982-01-10T22:00:00Z

1982x01 The Winter Sky

Season Premiere

1982x01 The Winter Sky

  • 1982-01-10T22:00:00Z30m

Patrick Moore talks about lunar eclipses, looking in particular at the eclipse of 6 January 1982, and describes features in the January night sky.

Evidence of current active volcanoes

1982-03-14T22:00:00Z

1982x03 The Largest Star?

1982x03 The Largest Star?

  • 1982-03-14T22:00:00Z30m

Epsilon Aurigae

The retrograde motion of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn

A look back at a special programme marking the 25th anniversary of The Sky at Night. Patrick Moore reports on what is happening at great observatories all over the world.

1982-05-16T21:00:00Z

1982x06 The Depths Of Space

1982x06 The Depths Of Space

  • 1982-05-16T21:00:00Z30m

New quasar discovered 13,000 million lightyears away

Visit to the observatory in the Canary Islands

Possibility of a 10th planet waiting to be discovered

1982-08-22T21:00:00Z

1982x09 Siding Spring

1982x09 Siding Spring

  • 1982-08-22T21:00:00Z30m

Report on the Anglo-Australian Observatory, its discoveries and photographs

Powerful stars inside arms affect the Milky Way and other star systems

The comet was rediscovered by astronomers at Palomar

1982-10-31T22:00:00Z

1982x12 The Cosmic Serpent

1982x12 The Cosmic Serpent

  • 1982-10-31T22:00:00Z30m

Theories that comets hitting the Earth could have caused extinction of dinosaurs

1982x13 The Last Man On The Moon

  • 1982-12-05T22:00:00Z30m

Apollo 17 landed on the Moon 10 years ago

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