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12 Episodes 1958 - 1958
Episode 1
Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.
Episode 2
Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.
Episode 3
Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.
Episode 4
Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.
Episode 5
Tonight Patrick Moore is at the Hampstead Observatory. If weather conditions are suitable television cameras will bring live pictures of the moon's surface.
Episode 6
Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.
Episode 7
Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.
Episode 8
Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.
Episode 9
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.
Episode 10
Our galaxy, globular clusters and the possibility of life on other planets
Episode 11
Mars is better seen now than it will be for next 10 years. Patrick Moore discusses the chances of life on Mars.
Episode 12
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 its current state.