Season 32
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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
The Sky at Night asked for amateur astronomical photographers to send in their pictures - either of objects in the sky, or of observatories and telescopes. Patrick Moore and Douglas Arnold show the best pictures sent in.
During March, Venus and Jupiter are splendidly placed for observation in the evening sky. Patrick Moore talks about them, and explains what observers using small telescopes may expect to see on their surfaces.
Yerkes Observatory, at Williams Bay near Chicago, is a most unusual place. Its main telescope is not a reflector, but a refractor - the world's largest. Yerkes is in the forefront of scientific research, as Patrick Moore explains.
The sun is the nearest star; but how much is known about it? Less may be known than was thought; there are problems of the sunspots, the strange particles called neutrinos, and the recently discovered oscillations of the whole solar globe.
Are quasars remote and super-luminous, or are they comparatively close to our galaxy? Dr. Halton C. Arp , believes that they are not so remote as most people think, and he discusses these exciting and controversial ideas with Patrick.
Astronomy programme.