The Sky at Night - Season 36 / Year 1992

The Sky at Night - Season 36 / Year 1992

Season 36 / Year 1992

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DatesJan. 12, 1992 - Dez. 6, 1992
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Episodes

Outposts Of The Universe
Year 1992Episode 130 min

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.
Jan. 12, 1992
Sky-Watcher
Year 1992Episode 230 min

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".
Feb. 23, 1992
Vermin Of The Skies?
Year 1992Episode 330 min

Vermin Of The Skies?

Patrick Moore finds out more about asteroids, the minor planets which are junior members of the Sun's family.
März 15, 1992
Shooting The Stars
Year 1992Episode 430 min

Shooting The Stars

At the Anglo-Australian Observatory in New South Wales, Dr David Malin has developed new techniques for photographing the stars. With Patrick Moore.
Apr. 5, 1992
Space For Astronomy - 35Th Anniversary Programme
Year 1992Episode 530 min

Space For Astronomy - 35Th Anniversary Programme

An anniversary edition to celebrate the first transmission of The Sky at Night35 years ago. A newcomer to television then, 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.
Apr. 26, 1992
Background Of The Universe
Year 1992Episode 630 min

Background Of The Universe

Professor Arnold Wolfendale, joins Patrick Moore to discuss the latest information received from the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite,
Mai 31, 1992
Our Outer Giants
Year 1992Episode 730 min

Our Outer Giants

A look at the outer giant planets, Uranus and Neptune. The Voyager probe missions that by-passed Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989 were covered by Sky at Night at the time. Further analysis has since been carried out, and Patrick Moore sums up the new findings.
Juni 28, 1992
Comets - A Second View
Year 1992Episode 820 min

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.

Juli 19, 1992
The First Telescope?
Year 1992Episode 930 min

The First Telescope?

It is usually accepted that the first telescope was made in 1608. But new evidence shows that the first reflector was made in England, by Leonard Digges , many years before. In this programme Colin Ronan joins Patrick Moore to explain the principle, and to show the first "working" Digges-type telescope to have been made for more than 400 years.
Aug. 16, 1992
The Great Spiral
Year 1992Episode 1030 min

The Great Spiral

Patrick Moore studies the Great Spiral in Andromeda, a galaxy containing more than 100,000 million stars.
Okt. 11, 1992
Venus-A New View
Year 1992Episode 1130 min

Venus-A New View

Dr David Allen joins Patrick Moore to describe research aimed at showing surface details of the planet Venus.
Nov. 8, 1992
Six Into One Will Go
Year 1992Episode 1230 min

Six Into One Will Go

Patrick Moore sees how the multiple mirror telescope in Arizona is to be changed.
Dez. 6, 1992
A Glitch In The System
Year 1992Episode 1330 min

A Glitch In The System

Professor Sir Francis Graham-Smith , the former Astronomer Royal, joins Patrick Moore to discuss the latest findings about the fascinating Crab Nebula.
Dez. 6, 1992

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