Season 18
13 episodes
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A passionate astronomer battles personal demons while uncovering cosmic mysteries, revealing the profound connection between the universe and human emotion.
Episodes
Patrick Moore talks about what is on view in the night sky now, and discusses with Gilbert Satterthwaite the important subject of positional astronomy - the exact measurements and movements of celestial objects.
Saturn is now very well placed in the evening sky, and a small telescope will show its ring system as well as some of the moons. Patrick and Dr Garry Hunt examine the recent results showing that its satellite Titan, has a thick atmosphere.
The Milky Way, can easily be seen in the evening sky this month. Patrick describes this luminous band which stretches from one horizon to the other and explains how it forms part of the huge Galaxy of stars in which we live.
Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Garry Hunt the findings from Mariner 10, the first spacecraft to fly past the sun's innermost planet, Mercury, and send back positive information about this strange little world.
Patrick Moore interviews Dr Carl Sagan, astronomer and exobiologist, on the possibility of life forms on other planets.
Astronomy programme.