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RE: THE SKY AT NIGHT

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	Lost in Space	Thu 3 Jan, 20:20 - 21:10
	BBC Four
Island in the Sky: Showing as part of Irwin Allen Night. Classic episode of the science fiction series. Professor John Robinson is sent hurtling towards an unknown planet.

	The Sky at Night	Mon 7 Jan, 19:30 - 20:00
	BBC Four
Cosmic Debris: Every day the Earth is bombarded by extra-terrestrial material, but what is cosmic debris? Sir Patrick Moore investigates comet tails, meteorites and asteroids.


		Tue 8 Jan, 03:40 - 04:10

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	Sputnik's Children: December 2007, BBC4 Special Dr Chris Lintott finds out how British technology is leading the way in satellite science, while Sir Patrick Moore investigates the threat from space debris that astronauts face in space.

	Meteor Mania: November 2007, BBC4 Special Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Brian May and Jon Culshaw to watch the cosmic firework display known as the Perseid meteor shower.

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	The Sky at Night	Sat 8 Dec, 12:00 - 12:20
	BBC Two
Last Man on the Moon: Dr Chris Lintott travels to the Johnson Space Centre to talk to the Commander of Apollo 17 about his memories of being the last man on the moon in December 1972.


	The Sky at Night	Sun 9 Dec, 21:00 - 22:00
	BBC Four



	The Sky at Night	Mon 10 Dec, 01:00 - 02:00
	BBC Four
Showing as part of 1957 Week. A Journey Through Space and Time: A look back at the major developments in astronomy over the past 50 years, when The Sky at Night was launched.

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December's Episode - Last Man on the Moon
Monday 03 December, 12.45am BBC One
On the 14th of December 1972, Captain Eugene Cernan left the moon to return to Earth. He had no idea that, 25 years later, he would still be the last man to have left his footprints on the lunar surface. Dr Chris Lintott travels to the Johnson Space Centre to talk to the Commander of Apollo 17 about his memories of being on the moon. Plus Sir Patrick Moore looks at lunar samples brought back by the astronauts and talks to NASA scientists about what they discovered.

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Watch - The Grand Collision

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	The Sky at Night	Sun 4 Nov, 19:30 - 20:00
	BBC Four
The Grand Collision: Sir Patrick Moore looks ahead 2 billion years when the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda, destroying stars and planets but also creating new ones.


	The Sky at Night	Mon 5 Nov, 00:40 - 01:00
	BBC One
The Grand Collision: Patrick Moore anticipates the collision of our own Milky Way with Andromeda in two billion years' time and explains the role that dark matter will play.


	The Sky at Night	Tue 6 Nov, 02:35 - 03:05
	BBC Four
The Grand Collision: Sir Patrick Moore looks ahead 2 billion years when the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda, destroying stars and planets but also creating new ones.

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October's Episode - Jodrell Bank

Patrick Moore celebrates the 50th birthday of the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, created just in time to pick up the radar signal from the satellite Sputnik. It has been at the centre of radio astronomy ever since and has been responsible for the discovery of quasars, gravitational lenses and groundbreaking research into pulsars and cosmic explosions such as supernovae. Astronomer Bernard Lovell talks about how it came to be built, despite huge engineering and financial challenges.

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	The Sky at Night	Sat 13 Oct, 12:00 - 12:20
	BBC Two
Jodrell Bank: Sir Patrick Moore joins Sir Bernard Lovell to talk about how the radio telescope Jodrell Bank came to be built, despite enormous engineering and financial challenges.

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	The Sky at Night	Sun 7 Oct, 19:00 - 19:30
	BBC Four
Jodrell Bank: Sir Patrick Moore joins Sir Bernard Lovell to talk about how the radio telescope was built, and Dr Chris Lintott talks to scientists who are still using the Lovell Telescope today.


	The Sky at Night	Mon 8 Oct, 00:25 - 00:45
	BBC One
Jodrell Bank: Sir Patrick Moore joins Sir Bernard Lovell to talk about how the radio telescope Jodrell Bank came to be built, despite enormous engineering and financial challenges.


	The Sky at Night	Mon 8 Oct, 01:40 - 02:10
	BBC Four
Jodrell Bank: Sir Patrick Moore joins Sir Bernard Lovell to talk about how the radio telescope was built, and Dr Chris Lintott talks to scientists who are still using the Lovell Telescope today.