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World Service,29 Apr 1999,13 mins

Choosing Telescopes

Seeing Stars

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Buying a telescope advice with Robin Scagell of the Society for Popular Astronomy. Calculating distances between galaxies - discussion with Keith Taylor Anglo-Australian Observatory Plus what was happening among the stars and planets in May 1999. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1999.

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