Season 25
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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 visits Mount Palomar in Southern California to see the great 200-inch telescope, and talks to the scientists who use the largest working telescope in the world.
Patrick Moore talks to three astronomers about their recent discoveries and he explains how light and dark nebulae are the same objects lit differently.
Patrick Moore tells the story of William Herschel, the obscure Hanoverian army bandsman whose discovery with a home-made telescope of the planet Uranus doubled the size of the known solar system.
What can be seen in the night sky this month? Patrick Moore describes the stars which are on view during April; he also shows the latest maps of Saturn's satellites drawn up from Voyager I pictures,
In the Canary Islands the new Northern Hemisphere Observatory is being built. This observatory, a joint international project, is designed to study galaxies so remote that their light takes thousands of millions of years to reach us.
Astronomy programme.