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Mapping the Milky Way (1998 Video)

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tracks a hundred years of science in exploring the science and technology that has been used to study the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way. Shows optical studies, radio astronomy, infrared astronomy...

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To Call Space Soon

Date released

6 Feb 1966

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

66/11

NoS ID

111945

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

A new British radio telescope nears completion and will extend the frontiers of the science of radio astronomy.

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Modern British Astronomy

Series name

Letter From London

Issue no

344

NoS ID

325242

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Radio Telescope

Date released

24 Oct 1960

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

304

NoS ID

120963

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows the radio telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory of the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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Doppler Effect in Sound and Light, The (1973 Film)

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The relationship between motion, both radial and transverse, and resulting changes in apparent wavelength is illustrated for sound and light. The use of the Doppler effect in astronomy is indicated. Teaching...

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Darkness Visible (1980 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

The science of x-ray astronomy in which pioneers recall early experiments, evaluate progress made and look forward, with misgivings, to a future in which financial stringency may mean that rockets and...

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Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain (1971 Video)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Hire, Videotape reel. RCA 2 in. b&w. 53 min.

Introduction to the hypotheses of Alexander Thom on prehistoric observational astronomy. The method by which such observations might have been made is explained with the aid of diagrams and animation. The...

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Radio Astronomy

Date released

1969

Series name

Frontier (Colour series)

Issue no

3

NoS ID

324982

Story no

1 / 1

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Cosmic Recycling (1993 Video)

Producer

Tony Jolly

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the birth and death of stars and the interstellar matter that keeps the whole cosmic cycle turning. Infrared astronomy has revealed previously hidden details of starbirth behind dust clouds....

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Story of Palomar, The (1948 Film)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The development of the Palomar telescope explaining the theory behind the reflecting telescope and tracing the manufacture and installation of the mirror for the Palomar telescope.

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