1993 • 13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1 • Jan 10, 1993
Patrick Moore surveys Orion the Hunter, and then Mars and Venus - two bright inner planets.
Episode 2 • Feb 06, 1993
Patrick Moore visits the world's most powerful radio observatories and talks to the astronomers who make the radio pictures.
Episode 3 • Mar 08, 1993
Patrick Moore discusses the latest findings on how the universe began.
Episode 4 • Apr 05, 1993
Patrick Moore explains the significance of a new telescope jointly planned by Cambridge University and the Harvard Observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is being set up in Chile.
Episode 5 • May 03, 1993
Patrick Moore explains that there is much for the amateur astronomer to see.
Episode 6 • May 31, 1993
Dr Robin Catchpole of the Royal Greenwich Observatory joins Patrick Moore to talk about supernova - the most tremendous outbursts known in nature involving the destruction of a massive star - from which astronomers can learn a great deal.
Episode 7 • Jun 27, 1993
Patrick Moore reports from Baltimore on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Episode 8 • Jul 26, 1993
Dr Chris Kitchin joins Patrick Moore to explain what the so-called planetary nebulae are.
Episode 9 • Aug 23, 1993
Patrick Moore discusses newly found bodies in orbit around the sun and asks whether the planetary system could be more extensive than previously believed.
Episode 10 • Sep 20, 1993
Patrick Moore talks to Prof Richard Davis of Jodrell Bank about his current work with the Lovell radio telescope.
Episode 11 • Oct 18, 1993
Patrick Moore is joined by Fred Watson, of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, who has been developing fibre optics for astronomy.
Episode 12 • Nov 15, 1993
Patrick Moore looks at Taunton School's radio telescope.
Episode 13 • Dec 12, 1993
Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Jocelyn Bell-Burnell for the latest news about black holes.