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The Sky at Night Season 36 Episodes
Season 36 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1992 - 1992
Episode 1
Outposts of the Universe
Patrick Moore visits the world's most powerful telescope, the Keck reflector, now being constructed on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Episode 2
Sky-Watcher
It is not necessary to have a large telescope in order to take a real interest in the night sky. Binoculars will show a great deal. Patrick Moore takes viewers on a "guided tour".
Episode 3
Vermin of the Skies?
Patrick Moore finds out more about asteroids, the minor planets which are junior members of the Sun's family.
Episode 4
Shooting the Stars
Dr. David Malin of the Anglo-Australian Observatory in New South Wales has developed revolutionary new techniques for photographing the stars. Today he shows Patrick Moore some of the spectacular pictures he has taken recently.
Episode 5
Space for Astronomy
35th anniversary of the first transmission of The Sky at Night. Patrick Moore has continued to present the programme ever since. Tonight he reports on the influence the space age has had on people's understanding and knowledge of astronomy
Episode 6
Background of the Universe
The Astronomer Royal, Professor Arnold Wolfendale , joins Patrick Moore to discuss the latest information received from the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, COBE.
Episode 7
Our Outer Giants
A look at the outer giant planets, Uranus and Neptune. The Voyager probe missions that by-passed Uranus and Neptune were covered by Sky at Night at the time. Further analysis has since been carried out, and Patrick sums up the new findings
Episode 8
Comets: A Second View
The Giotto spacecraft encountered Halley's Comet in 1986 and escaped. Giotto recently made close-range studies of the comet Grigg-Skellerup. Patrick and Dr. John Mason are joined by Susan McKenna-Lawlor to discuss the problems of comets.
Episode 9
The First Telescope?
Colin Ronan joins Patrick to explain the principles that made the creation of the first telescope possible.
Episode 10
The Great Spiral
Patrick Moore studies the Great Spiral in Andromeda, a huge galaxy containing more than 100,000 million stars and located two million light-years away.
Episode 11
Venus - A New View
Dr. David Allen joins Patrick Moore to describe research aimed at showing surface details of the planet Venus.
Episode 12
Six Into One Will Go
Patrick Moore sees how the multiple-mirror telescope in Arizona is to be changed.
Episode 13
A Glitch in the System
Professor Sir Francis Graham-Smith joins Patrick Moore to discuss the latest findings on the Crab Nebula, a gas cloud marking the remnant of the supernova which blazed out in the year 1054.
