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13 Episodes 1978 - 1978
Episode 1
Good astronomical telescopes are very expensive today, but there are many objects in the night sky which can be viewed with binoculars. Patrick gives advice on the types of binoculars which are most useful.
Episode 2
Patrick Moore talks about the Local Group of galaxies with Heather Couper, lecturer at the Caird Planetarium, Greenwich.
Episode 3
The Viking space-probes have been operating on Mars for nearly 2 years. We don't yet know whether life in any form exists there but many scientific discoveries have been made. Patrick talks to Professor Geoffrey Eglinton and Dr Garry Hunt
Episode 4
The asteroids or minor planets are among the most interesting of the junior members in the Solar System. Gordon Taylor, of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, describes his ingenious method of measuring their sizes.
Episode 5
How is a star born? We believe that with our telescopes we can see where fresh stars are being created. Patrick Moore talks about stellar birth, how a star develops and how every star, including our sun, must eventually die.
Episode 6
Far from being exceptional, our earth is an ordinary planet moving around an ordinary star. From space it looks like a coloured globe. Patrick and Dr. Ron Maddison discuss the earth from an extra-terrestrial astronomer's point of view.
Episode 7
Patrick Moore discusses gamma ray research with Dr. Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, who worked on the discovery of pulsars.
Episode 8
Patrick Moore discusses the evidence, and speculates upon the possibility that our planetary system may extend much farther than is generally believed.
Episode 9
Patrick Moore, from his Selsey home, answers common questions sent in by viewers regarding astronomy.
Episode 10
The moon has long been regarded as a dead world; but is this completely true? Astronomers have described faint coloured patches and local 'fogs', which are sometimes thought to be gases seeping through from below the ground.
Episode 11
Patrick Moore talks to Sir Fred Hoyle and Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe about their book, "Lifecloud", which puts forward the theory that life originated in interstellar space.
Episode 12
Patrick Moore talks to Dr. Simon Mitton about supernovae and their role in the manufacture of the heavy elements from which worlds such as our own Earth are made.
Episode 13
Patrick Moore and Dr. Ron Maddison consider the significance of the planetary alignment of Jupiter and Saturn and discuss suggestions that it may have an effect upon the Earth.