The Sky at Night
Season 25 Episode 9 - The Perseids
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
Meteors, or shooting stars, space debris shed by comets travelling round the sun, can produce brilliant displays and the Perseids, seen each year between 27 July and 17 August, are unusually spectacular. They are of special interest during the early 1980s, because the comet associated with them - Swift-Tuttle - is due back having been unobserved for 120 years. Patrick Moore talks to John Mason , who led an expedition to France to study the Perseids, and looks forward to the return of Halley's Comet, which also is associated with meteor showers.
Episodes in Season 25
1
The 200-inch Telescope at Mount
2
The Sword of Orion
3
Mr Herschel's Planet
4
The Spring Sky
5
'In the Beginning.... '
6
Neptune - the Mysterious Giant
7
Bombardment from Space
8
The Summer Sky
9
The Perseids
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10
Voyager 2: A Second Opinion of Saturn
11
A Tribute to Sir Bernard Lovell
12
The Autumn Sky
13
