The Sky at Night
Season 24 Episode 1 - Mapping the Sky
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
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.
Episodes in Season 24
1
Mapping the Sky
NOW PLAYING
2
Saturn: The Disappearing Rings
3
The Man Who Discovered a Planet
4
The Multiple Mirror Telescope
5
Journey to the Centre of the Galaxy
6
Kitt Peak Observatory: the Solar Telescope
7
Quasars
8
The Mapping of Venus
9
Meteor Crater
10
Autumn Equinox
11
The Scintars
12
Voyager I Reaches Saturn
13
