The Sky at Night: Mapping the Sky

Aired 1980-01-10

How many people know the meaning of terms such as ' right ascension' and ' declination '? And what exactly is the celestial sphere? Mapping the sky presents problems different from those of mapping the earth. Patrick Moore talks about sky-maps, and how astronomers have worked out their own equivalent of latitude and longitude.

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Episodes

Season

13 episodes

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The Sky at Night: Mapping the Sky

Mapping the Sky

Saturn: The Disappearing Rings

The Man Who Discovered a Planet

The Multiple Mirror Telescope

Journey to the Centre of the Galaxy

Kitt Peak Observatory: the Solar Telescope

Quasars

The Mapping of Venus

Meteor Crater

Autumn Equinox

The Scintars

Voyager I Reaches Saturn

The Quadrantids