The Sky at Night
Season 18 Episode 7 - Shooting Stars
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
At this time of the year shooting stars can be seen in profusion, for we are in the middle of the year's richest meteor-shower - The Perseids. Tonight Patrick Moore discusses these spectacular objects and how they occur. He also hopes to show photographs which viewers were invited to send.
Episodes in Season 18
1
Positional Astronomy
2
Saturn - The Ringed Planet
3
The Milky Way
4
Life in the Universe
5
The Daylight Star
6
The Heart of the Scorpion
7
Shooting Stars
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8
Choosing a Telescope
9
Lord Rosse's Great Telescope
10
The Changing Force of Gravity
11
Eros - Wanderer in Space
12