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5 unusual facts about The Sky at Night


57424 Caelumnoctu

It was named Caelumnoctu (Latin for The Sky at Night) in honour of the BBC television program which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007.

Mat Irvine

As a Technical Consultant, Irvine worked on shows such as The Sky at Night, Tomorrow's World and, most recently, Robot Wars, on which he was hired as a technical consultant in 1998.

Nial Tanvir

Tanvir has featured in various TV programs, including The Sky at Night hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, which is an astronomically focused TV program, and a BBC Horizon documentary about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).

Pelléas and Mélisande

Jean Sibelius also wrote incidental music for it in 1905; the section, "At the castle gate," has found fame as the signature music of the BBC The Sky at Night programme.

Peter B. Lawrence

Peter B. Lawrence is a British amateur astronomer best known for his popularization of astronomy on the BBC's The Sky at Night with Sir Patrick Moore, Paul Abel and Dr. Chris Lintott.


BBC Sky at Night

The title of the periodical derives for the likenamed Television program produced by the BBC, The Sky at Night.


see also

Sky at Night

BBC Sky at Night, a BBC magazine associated with The Sky at Night