1. The Winter Sky

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. 8 January 1958

Patrick Moore shows you the wonders of the winter sky during the coming month.

2. Radio Astronomy

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. 5 February 1958

Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. Roger Jennison of Jodrell Bank how radio astronomy is increasing our knowledge of the Universe.

3. The Plough

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. 5 March 1958

Patrick Moore discusses the most famous of all the constellations.

4. Penumbral Eclipse

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. 2 April 1958

Patrick Moore talks about the forthcoming penumbral eclipse of the Moon, and Mercury the nearest planet to the Sun.

5. The Moon

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. 30 April 1958

Tonight Patrick Moore is at the Hampstead Observatory. If weather conditions are suitable television cameras will bring live pictures of the moon's surface.

6. Jupiter

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. 28 May 1958

Patrick Moore talks about the largest planet, its family of moons, and its mysterious changing red spot.

7. Dwarf and Giant Stars

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. 20 June 1958

Patrick Moore talks about the life history of a star.

8. Moon Missions

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. 23 July 1958

Patrick Moore explains what it would mean to astronomers if a successful attempt were made to reach the moon.

9. Telescopes

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. 20 August 1958

Patrick Moore talks about old and new telescopes with A. H. Degenhardt, and shows some of the things which the new telescopes can reveal-for instance, about the Andromeda Galaxy, whose light takes nearly two million years to reach us.

10. The Universe

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. 17 September 1958

Patrick Moore talks to America's foremost astronomer, Dr. Harlow Shapley, about his theories on the size and scale of the universe.

11. Mars

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. 17 November 1958

Mars is better seen now than it will be for the next ten years.

12. The Craters on the Moon

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. 15 December 1958

Patrick Moore and Dr. Gilbert Fielder discuss the recent report by a Russian astronomer of an eruption on the moon, and what it reveals about the moon's origin and present state.