Vintage BBC Sky at night - Voyager's fly past of Uranus.

I can't believe this is more than 30 years old, and I vaguely remember seeing this on the news at the time.  Here are the late Sir Patrick Moore's thoughts on it.  This is BBC at its best again.

BBC sky at night: Pluto and New Horizons

The other night, I watched a very informative BBC Sky at Night documentary on Youtube about the flypast of the New Horizons probe on planet/dwarf planet Pluto last year.  I didn't realize that Pluto and its moon Charon can actually qualify as a binary pair because the barycentre that they both orbit is outside of Pluto itself.  Presenter Chris Lintott really knows his stuff and is a worthwhile successor to the late Patrick Moore.

The Sky at Night: How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets

After finishing 'the sky at night' questions and answers book, I have moved onto "The Sky at Night: How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets", written by Paul Abel and Chris North (who co-wrote the questions and answers book with Sir Patrick).  I hope to be intellectually enlightened at the end of it.

Patrick Moore: the sky at night

I am still reading Gribbin's quantum computing book, but today I have bought the Kindle version of
The sky at night: questions from across the universe,written by the late Sir Patrick Moore.  Like the previous book, it is another question and answer book, which answers questions posed by BBC Sky at night viewers from over the years.  I have only just started reading it and one thing he mentioned was that it is perfectly reasonable to look at the stars using binoculars, instead of a telescope. He does explain alot of the scientific concepts quite well without delving to much into physics and chemistry jargon.