It was named Caelumnoctu (Latin for The Sky at Night) in honour of the BBC television program which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007.
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.
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).
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 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.
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The title of the periodical derives for the likenamed Television program produced by the BBC, The Sky at Night.
BBC Sky at Night, a BBC magazine associated with The Sky at Night