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Citizen Astronomy

Sir Patrick Moore explains how amateur astronomers can play a part in helping to sort out which images captured by space missions are important and interesting.

Amateur astronomers are scanning the night skies looking for asteroids, comets and supernovae, and making vital discoveries in our quest for knowledge. Meanwhile space missions produce millions of images, but who is to say which ones are truly unusual and interesting? It is a job that computers struggle with, but one in which humans excel. This, more than ever, is the age of the amateur astronomer and Sir Patrick Moore explains how everybody can play a part whilst also enjoying the beautiful cosmos.

40 minutes

Last on

Sat 10 Mar 201212:00
BBC Two except Scotland

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Credits

PresenterPatrick Moore
ProducerJane Fletcher
Executive ProducerWilliam Lyons
PresenterChris Lintott
ReporterPete Lawrence
ReporterChris North
ReporterPaul G Abel

Broadcasts

  • Sun 4 Mar 201223:35
    BBC One except Northern Ireland & Scotland
  • Sun 4 Mar 201223:55
    BBC One Scotland
  • Mon 5 Mar 201223:35
    BBC One Northern Ireland
  • Sat 10 Mar 201211:30
    BBC Two Scotland
  • Sat 10 Mar 201212:00
    BBC Two except Scotland

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