The Sky at Night
Season 25 Episode 3 - Mr Herschel's Planet
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
Patrick Moore tells the story of William Herschel, the obscure Hanoverian army bandsman whose discovery with a home-made telescope of the planet Uranus doubled the size of the known solar system. Herschel was hired to provide 'astronomical entertainment' for the British Royal Family and King George III gave him £4,000 to build the world's largest telescope in a garden at Slough.
Episodes in Season 25
1
The 200-inch Telescope at Mount
2
The Sword of Orion
3
Mr Herschel's Planet
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4
The Spring Sky
5
'In the Beginning.... '
6
Neptune - the Mysterious Giant
7
Bombardment from Space
8
The Summer Sky
9
The Perseids
10
Voyager 2: A Second Opinion of Saturn
11
A Tribute to Sir Bernard Lovell
12
The Autumn Sky
13
