About this season
Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy with the latest thinking on what's out there in space and what you can see in the night sky.
Episodes (12)
1. The Winter Sky
Aired 8 January 1958
Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.
2. Radio Astronomy
Aired 5 February 1958
Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.
3. The Plough
Aired 5 March 1958
Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.
4. Penumbral Eclipse
Aired 2 April 1958
Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.
5. The Moon
Aired 30 April 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
Aired 28 May 1958
Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.
7. Dwarf and Giant Stars
Aired 20 June 1958
Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.
8. Moon Missions
Aired 23 July 1958
Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.
9. Telescopes
Aired 20 August 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
Aired 17 September 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
Aired 17 November 1958
Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.
12. The Craters on the Moon
Aired 15 December 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.