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The Sky at Night
BBC Four

S27E03: Mauna Kea - Half-way to Space

The Sky at Night · 1983
Aired 06 Mar 1983 at 9:00pm (UTC)
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Synopsis

Mauna Kea, in the Hawaiian Islands, is almost 14,000 feet high. At its summit the air is thin and the skies are clear-which is why some of the world's largest telescopes have been set up there. Patrick Moore pays it a visit.

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