The Sky At Night

I can imagine Watchification turning into a bit of a BBC4 niche, so it’s with great pleasure that we present a programme from that home of the mainstream – BBC 1. Though admittedly it’s The Sky At Night, a monthly programme that struggles to get on before midnight.  What a lovely piece of telly though, and, despite all the CG gubbins, the most effective bits are still with two astronomers in Patrick Moore’s garden explaining orbits with the aided of painted footballs. This edition discusses British plans to head to the moon, slightly late, in the same way, we didn’t bother with the World Cup for the first few years. It’s also worth noting that there’s a ton of interesting stuff and archive here.