| The Sky at Night |
Fri, 12 August 2011 10:53  |
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 BeeKeeper |
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Registered: December 2007
Location: Devon, UK, GMT | |
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I am not sure if anyone outside the UK can see it but the World's longest running television show, the Sky at Night, is still going. I saw what I think was the 705th episode yesterday and the Great Man who started it all over 50 years ago was still fronting it although to be honest his health seems to have gone down a bit even since the previous month's programme. It was a great programme with lots of news about missions to asteroids and Near Earth Objects - i.e. things that might wipe us out such as the lump which passed 7,500 km from the Earth earlier this year.
More information on the programme and background here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8362312/Sir-Pa trick-Moore-My-700-appearances-on-The-Sky-at-Night.html
And for anyone in the US please write to your politicians and make sure they don't cancel the James Webb Space Telescope project - the 6.5m diameter successor to Hubble. http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/about.html
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| Re: The Sky at Night |
Sun, 28 August 2011 20:31  |
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| neilhoward | 
 | Commander |
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Registered: April 2008
Location: SW3 & 10023 | |
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| BeeKeeper wrote on Fri, 12 August 2011 07:53 |
I am not sure if anyone outside the UK can see it...
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I started sneaker-netting it (vhs) across the pond around the time I picked up on Stars!, so going on 17 years I guess.
| BeeKeeper wrote on Fri, 12 August 2011 07:53 |
And for anyone in the US please write to your politicians and make sure they don't cancel the James Webb Space Telescope project - the 6.5m diameter successor to Hubble. http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/about.html
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I will post this to my university faculty site. Thanks for the heads-up.
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