BBC The Sky at Night

[Jane H Jones]

Last December Dr. Chris Lintott, co-host of  Sir Patrick Moore's"The 
Sky at Night"  TV show joined the sidewalk astronomers in Monrovia. 
With Chris, were series producer Jane Fletcher,  and the camera and 
sound crews.  I brought out my homemade 10-inch f/7.3 Dobsonian 
telescope, Stardust, and a couple of other homemade scopes for the 
evening.  Our segment (with John Dobson), is on this month's show, 
which you can see here: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml

Click on July's episode - a Sting in the Tail - the show starts out 
with information about the constellation Scorpius.

Here is our photo album of the evening: 
http://photo.whiteoaks.com/2006-12-02-dobson/

In other TV news, on the US History channel is a show called "The 
Universe" 
http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=mini_home&mini_id=54036. 
Each show (there is one about Cassini) runs several times so check 
your local listings. The DVD can be ordered from this website too. 
I've watched a couple of them, both Jupiter and the moon feature some 
Cassini colleagues, and they're great!

Jane
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Jane Houston Jones
Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program
JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205
Pasadena, CA  91109  818-393-6435
jane.h.jones at jpl.nasa.gov
Cassini SOC http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
What's Up? http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/amateurastronomy/index.html