Sky at Night Live tonight

[DaveS]

BBC 4 tonight, Sun 13th 9 o/c Note! A live studio edition, Chris, Maggie, and Pete answer questions from an audience.

[Gina]

Cheers.

[NGC 1502]

 

Thanks for the reminder - a whole hour of astronomy 👍

Ed.

[DaveS]

ON NOW!

[Alan White]

Well I enjoyed that,
great to be so broad a question base.
I did feel some of the questions failed to be fully answered though.
 

Sorry should add, Thank you to @DaveS for pointing it out.

Edited October 13, 2019 by Alan White

[Gina]

I enjoyed it too.

[DaveS]

Possibly they couldn't give as much time to each question as they'd have liked in order to get a good number in.

But yes, an enjoyable hour, and good to see such a wide knowledge base in the panel.

[Alan White]

But as Ed @NGC 1502 said, a whole hour of astronomy, wonderful 😁

[Alien 13]

I enjoyed it but agree with the other Alan that some questions didn't get answered properly, I still struggle with the size of the universe with the observable size and most distant object and its age considering that some say that the universe is smaller than the smallest sub atomic particle.

Alan

Edited October 13, 2019 by Alien 13

[Star101]

Just skimmed the above posts in case any spoilers...Missed it cos imaging at present. Will get it on the iPlayer  Looking forward to it.

[CedricTheBrave]

good session should be done more often

[Gina]

There were too many questions for any spoiler.

[DaveS]

The size of the observable universe isn't something that can be answered in a simple manner. A full answer could take as long as they had time for in the whole program.

[Alan White]

5 minutes ago, CedricTheBrave said:

good session should be done more often

Here, Here, fully agree.

[carastro]

Interesting episode.

Carole 

Edited October 13, 2019 by carastro

[DaveS]

I'm not sure, will have to revisit it on iPlayer. ATM I only have a 24" TV that cannot get HD so the animation was a bit small and low res for me.

[Ouroboros]

I wasn't going to watch it and then I looked  in and got hooked. Interesting and enjoyable programme. 

[Gina]

I wasn't watching closely enough to catch the animation - may watch a repeat if I remember.  Alnitak is certainly the left most of the three in Orion's Belt.

[carastro]

Sorry folks, just watched it again, it's clearer on my PC, it was the right star, but the constellation was so small it looked like alnitak.

Carole 

[Gina]

But still not Betelgeuse!!  RH star of the Belt is Mintaka.

Edited October 13, 2019 by Gina

[Gina]

Ah sorry Carole guess you meant right as opposed to wrong not right v left.....

[carastro]

It was Betelgeuse, but I was watching it on a small TV at a distance, and all I could see was 3 stars in a line with what looked like the sword below.  In fact i was looking at a small constellation of Orion at an angle and the "sword" was in fact the Belt and the 3 stars (that I thought were the belt) were Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and whatever the star is in between which I never normally see). 

I changed my post as soon as I realised, but by then some of you had already read it. 

Carole 

Edited October 13, 2019 by carastro

[Paul M]

Just watching this on iPlayer. Really enjoying it.

I'd given up on S&N. Maybe a live, informal astro-chat would be something they could do more often? Everything that Stargazing live could have been but mostly failed.

[Ouroboros]

I learnt the useful fact that according to Pete Lawrence Betelgeuse is Orion's right armpit. 🙂  I always thought it was his shoulder. 

[Swoop1]

I must be wierd as I was a bit underwhelemed...