Season 24
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 sky maps, and explains how astronomers have worked out their own equivalent of latitude and longitude.
Paul Doherty, an enthusiastic observer of Saturn, joins Patrick Moore to talk about the interesting features of Saturn which can be seen when the rings are almost invisible.
For this programme, Patrick Moore flew to Arizona to meet Professor Tombaugh and to ask him what he now thought about the curious planet he discovered half a century ago.
Atop Mount Hopkins, in Arizona, is the world's most revolutionary observatory. Instead of one great mirror, there are six all working together and controlled by a laser beam. Patrick Moore visits and looks at this remarkable new telescope.
What lies at the centre of our galaxy? Are there masses of brilliant stars, or something even more significant, such as a Black Hole swallowing up any stars which move too close to it? Patrick Moore and Heather Couper explore this mystery.
Astronomy programme.