Extended Sky at Night on BBC4

Information received from the Sky at Night office


BBC4 will be showing an extended version of the Sky at Night. It will go out
Monday evening at 20.30, the day after the main programme.

For our extra 10 minutes we have decided to do a monthly guide to the night
sky with Patrick and Chris Lintott.

This month we will be focusing on the constellation Pegasus, M15, M33 and
Fomalhaut plus other topical objects.


No excuse not to get that set top box now ;-)


Robin

Is that 26 and 27th Sept or later ?
Neither date shows S.A.N. in the Radio Times.

Oh Goody another 10 minutes of Chris the "Wooden One" Lintott

"John Hirst" wrote in message
...
Is that 26 and 27th Sept or later ?
Neither date shows S.A.N. in the Radio Times.

John Hirst wrote:
Is that 26 and 27th Sept or later ?
Both are on October 4th.
Original is on BBC1 at 01:00, the extended is the following evening on BBC4
at 20:30

--
Regards
Andy

In article , John Hirst wrote:
Is that 26 and 27th Sept or later ?
Neither date shows S.A.N. in the Radio Times.=20

DigiGuide has it down for 4th October:

SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTARY: Sky at Night
Channel: BBC 4 10
Date: Monday 4th October 2004
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (starting in 9 days)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Planets On View.=20
Astronomy series. The search for other planets similar to earth is on,=20
in the hope of finding life elsewhere in our Universe. Patrick Moore=20
talks to planet hunter Professor Barrie Jones, and Chris Lintott finds=20
out about SuperWASP, the wide angle survey for planets, based on La=20
Palma.

Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from=20
http://www.digiguide.com. Copyright =A91999-2003 GipsyMedia Ltd.=20
Information copied from DigiGuide cannot be re-distributed, sold or used=20
without prior written consent from GipsyMedia Ltd. All rights reserved.
--=20
Jim Easterbrook http://astro.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/
N51.36 W0.25

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:54:13 +0100, "Robin Leadbeater"
wrote:

Information received from the Sky at Night office


BBC4 will be showing an extended version of the Sky at Night. It will go out
Monday evening at 20.30, the day after the main programme.

For our extra 10 minutes we have decided to do a monthly guide to the night
sky with Patrick and Chris Lintott.

This month we will be focusing on the constellation Pegasus, M15, M33 and
Fomalhaut plus other topical objects.


No excuse not to get that set top box now ;-)


Robin


That's good news, but it shows up on the Radio Times web site as only
five minutes longer because the morning's transmission is listed as
0100-0125BST. Mind you, it won't be the first time the Radio Times
have got the Sky at Night's timings wrong. I wrote to them last year
when they were all over the place with it, sometimes not listing it at
all and all they could say was that it wasn't anything to do with
them!

It's a pity it's not on BBC2 instead of 4, I reckon they'd get loads
of viewers at that pre-watershed time. I'm sure the BBC underestimate
the draw that astronomy has.

- Mike

But maybe not what a dated format like Sky at Night has. It needs
replacing with a far superior program. It was great 20 years ago but the
world has changed.

Patrick Moore lost touch with amateur astronomy 20 years ago for all his
legendary status

Mike Murphy wrote:
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:54:13 +0100, "Robin Leadbeater"
wrote:


Information received from the Sky at Night office


BBC4 will be showing an extended version of the Sky at Night. It will go out
Monday evening at 20.30, the day after the main programme.

For our extra 10 minutes we have decided to do a monthly guide to the night
sky with Patrick and Chris Lintott.

This month we will be focusing on the constellation Pegasus, M15, M33 and
Fomalhaut plus other topical objects.


No excuse not to get that set top box now ;-)


Robin



That's good news, but it shows up on the Radio Times web site as only
five minutes longer because the morning's transmission is listed as
0100-0125BST. Mind you, it won't be the first time the Radio Times
have got the Sky at Night's timings wrong. I wrote to them last year
when they were all over the place with it, sometimes not listing it at
all and all they could say was that it wasn't anything to do with
them!

It's a pity it's not on BBC2 instead of 4, I reckon they'd get loads
of viewers at that pre-watershed time. I'm sure the BBC underestimate
the draw that astronomy has.

- Mike

Owen Brazell wrote:

But maybe not what a dated format like Sky at Night has. It needs
replacing with a far superior program. It was great 20 years ago but the
world has changed.

Every programme there's ever been would be better if it was replaced
by a far superior programme. Do you have any information that says a
better programme is in the pipeline?

Patrick Moore lost touch with amateur astronomy 20 years ago for all his
legendary status

I don't think amateur/professional was ever a useful distinction.

There are 2 types of astronomy - interesting and dull. The trick is
spotting what will not be dull for the audience you've got. The
film-star presenting flashes and bangs in prime time slots clearly is
interesting to some. An astronomer, paid or unpaid, talking to the
best of his ability about current research, gently prodded from time
to time by Patrick, is rivetting to others including me. Sad but true.