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