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Did anyone else see the (much trailed) Light programme on BBC4 last
night. It wasn't too bad despite the presumed short audience attention span. Some parts were well done on the history of optics and light. The tendency of early researchers in this field to spend long periods in gaol etc.. Afterwards pressing the red button gave a short introduction to the constellations of the winter night sky. It was going pretty well right up to the point where they showed how to find the "famous Great Nebula in Orion" but instead showed how to locate the dim horsehead nebula and a picture of it. Not likely that anyone will see much of that by eye in the UK. Hopefully they might still be able to spot the true Great Nebula in the same binocular field though. This is a pretty crass mistake. Does nobody check BBC output for accuracy these days? Regards, Martin Brown |
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