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The Sky at Night · S24 E1

Mapping the Sky

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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Season 24 Episodes

  • E1Mapping the Sky
  • E2Saturn: The Disappearing Rings
  • E3The Man Who Discovered a Planet
  • E4The Multiple Mirror Telescope
  • E5Journey to the Centre of the Galaxy
  • E6Kitt Peak Observatory: the Solar Telescope
  • E7Quasars
  • E8The Mapping of Venus
  • E9Meteor Crater
  • E10Autumn Equinox
  • E11The Scintars
  • E12Voyager I Reaches Saturn
  • E13The Quadrantids