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Locked down but Looking up

The Sky at Night celebrates its 800th episode by showing how you can still explore space even when confined to your home by the coronavirus lockdown. Plus a new arrangement of the show's theme tune.

The Sky at Night celebrates its 800th episode while filming takes place under the coronavirus lockdown.

Chris Lintott explores how some astronomers are managing to continue making observations by controlling telescopes as far away as Hawaii from a laptop in their bedrooms in Belfast. Maggie Aderin-Pocock investigates how members of the public can get involved in analysing data from Mars, even when they are confined to their homes. And Pete Lawrence points out some treats in the night sky that we can all see if we keep looking up even when we鈥檙e locked down.

Plus a treat from the archives of the last 799 episodes set to a specially commissioned new arrangement of the show鈥檚 famous theme tune.

29 minutes

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:03

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham

    At The Castle Gate From Pelleas and Melisande (The Sky At Night) (1955)

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Pete Lawrence
Presenter Chris Lintott
Presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Series Producer Toby Macdonald
Executive Producer Steve Crabtree

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