1958

1. The Winter Sky

Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.

1958-01-08 • ? min

2. Radio Astronomy

Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.

1958-02-05 • ? min

3. The Plough

Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

1958-03-05 • ? min

4. Penumbral Eclipse

Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.

1958-04-02 • ? min

5. The Moon

Tonight Patrick Moore is at the Hampstead Observatory. If weather conditions are suitable television cameras will bring live pictures of the moon's surface.

1958-04-30 • ? min

6. Jupiter

Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.

1958-05-28 • ? min

7. Dwarf and Giant Stars

Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

1958-06-20 • ? min

8. Moon Missions

Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.

1958-07-23 • ? min

9. Telescopes

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.

1958-08-20 • ? min

10. The Universe

Patrick Moore talks to America's foremost astronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley, about his theories on the size and scale of the universe.

1958-09-17 • ? min

11. Mars

Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.

1958-11-17 • ? min

12. The Craters on the Moon

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.

1958-12-15 • ? min