Highlights
The Sky at Night

The Sky at Night - 1993 (1993)

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1993 Episodes

1. Episode 1

January 10th, 1993

Patrick Moore surveys Orion the Hunter, and then Mars and Venus - two bright inner planets.

2. Radio Watchers

February 6th, 1993

Patrick Moore visits the world's most powerful radio observatories and talks to the astronomers who make the radio pictures.

3. How the Universe Began

March 8th, 1993

Patrick Moore discusses the latest findings on how the universe began.

4. Cambridge Telescope

April 5th, 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.

5. Town Astronomy

May 3rd, 1993

Patrick Moore explains that there is much for the amateur astronomer to see.

6. Star Death

May 31st, 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.

7. A Star and its Costar

June 27th, 1993

Patrick Moore reports from Baltimore on the Hubble Space Telescope.

8. Planetary Nebulae

July 26th, 1993

Dr Chris Kitchin joins Patrick Moore to explain what the so-called planetary nebulae are.

9. Swarm around the Solar System

August 23rd, 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.

10. Merlin - The Radio Wizard

September 20th, 1993

Patrick Moore talks to Prof Richard Davis of Jodrell Bank about his current work with the Lovell radio telescope.

11. Tubes of Light

October 18th, 1993

Patrick Moore is joined by Fred Watson, of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, who has been developing fibre optics for astronomy.

12. Aerial Display

November 15th, 1993

Patrick Moore looks at Taunton School's radio telescope.

13. Galactic Dustbins

December 12th, 1993

Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Jocelyn Bell-Burnell for the latest news about black holes.

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