The BEST episodes of The Sky At Night season 1982
Every episode of The Sky At Night season 1982, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Sky At Night season 1982!
Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) began presenting The Sky at Night in April 1957. Airing a new episode every month, the show continues to explore our solar system and beyond. It is the longest running science show on TV. Many famous people have appeared on The Sky at Night, among them: Harlow Shapley, Carl Sagan and Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. Many astronauts have also appeared, including Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Recordings of most of the early episodes no longer exist.
#1 - When Planets Loop The Loop
Season 1982 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/4/1982
The retrograde motion of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn
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Season 1982 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/25/1982
A look back at a special programme marking the 25th anniversary of The Sky at Night. Patrick Moore reports on what is happening at great observatories all over the world.
#3 - Siding Spring
Season 1982 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/22/1982
Report on the Anglo-Australian Observatory, its discoveries and photographs
#4 - The Winter Sky
Season 1982 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/1982
Patrick Moore talks about lunar eclipses, looking in particular at the eclipse of 6 January 1982, and describes features in the January night sky.
#5 - The Changing Face Of Venus
Season 1982 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/7/1982
Evidence of current active volcanoes
#6 - The Largest Star?
Season 1982 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/14/1982
Epsilon Aurigae
#7 - The Depths Of Space
Season 1982 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/16/1982
New quasar discovered 13,000 million lightyears away
#8 - La Palma - A New Observatory
Season 1982 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/6/1982
Visit to the observatory in the Canary Islands
#9 - The Hunt For The Tenth Planet
Season 1982 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/18/1982
Possibility of a 10th planet waiting to be discovered
#10 - The Mystery Of The Spiral Arm
Season 1982 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/26/1982
Powerful stars inside arms affect the Milky Way and other star systems
#11 - The Return Of Halley's Comet
Season 1982 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/21/1982
The comet was rediscovered by astronomers at Palomar
#12 - The Cosmic Serpent
Season 1982 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/31/1982
Theories that comets hitting the Earth could have caused extinction of dinosaurs
#13 - The Last Man On The Moon
Season 1982 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/1982
Apollo 17 landed on the Moon 10 years ago