The Sky at Night
Season 31 Episode 8 - The Roof of the World
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
A great new telescope has just come into operation at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, almost 14,000 feet above sea level. It is the James Clerk Maxwell. Telescope, a sort of radio telescope designed to study regions of the universe where stars are being born. Patrick Moore visits the telescope and talks to the astronomers who planned and built it.
Episodes in Season 31
1
Photographing the Sky
2
The Study of Variable Stars
3
Stellar Catastrophe
4
A Celebration
5
Air on Other Worlds
6
High Moon
7
The William Herschel Telescope
8
The Roof of the World
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9
The Hunt for Planet Ten
10
The Exploding Star
11
Jodrell - The Listening Bank
12
A Telescope for Christmas?
13
