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The Sky at Night
BBC Four

S24E01: Mapping the Sky

The Sky at Night · 1980
Aired 10 Jan 1980 at 9:00pm (UTC)
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Synopsis

How many people know the meaning of terms such as ' right ascension' and ' declination '? And what exactly is the celestial sphere? Mapping the sky presents problems different from those of mapping the earth. Patrick Moore talks about sky-maps, and how astronomers have worked out their own equivalent of latitude and longitude.

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