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  1. Eyes on the Stars

    Date released
    26 Jun 1961
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1673
    NoS ID
    024159
    Story no
    1 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Eyes on the Stars. DESCRIPTION: The last word in star gazing is the Interferometer: twin radio telescopes. Each telescope can be driven along railway tracks, so that they can operate at...

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  2. Optical Interferometry in Astronomy (1979 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Photography of the night sky and the vast amount of information obtained therein. Limiting factors on the resolution of large telescopes. Using optical interference patterns as measuring devices. Speckle...

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  3. Space telescopes, planets and black holes (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male speaker on the use of space telescopes (or a particular space telescope, possibly Hubble?) to observe planets and black holes. Male interviewer not identified.

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  4. New additions to the Gateway

    Date
    1 Nov 2012, 14:57
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,200 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or...

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  5. Patrick Moore on Royal Observatory telescope (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Patrick Moore on the 28-inch refracting telescope at the Royal Observatory. He talks about how it is one of the largest telescopes in the world, how long it has been there, the groundbreaking things it has...

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  6. Francis Graham Smith on new telescope funding (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    Astronomer Royal, Sir Francis Graham Smith gives details of a new multi-million pund radio telescope which will be built by Manchester University following a grant. He describes the kind of things it may...

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  7. Good Seeing (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Astronomy; Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the new generation of large ground-based optical telescopes which will use lasers and flexible mirrors to compensate for atmospheric distortions and improve the ‘seeing’ from earth. In...

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  8. Helping Tommy to "See It Through"

    Date released
    30 Nov 1939
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    913
    NoS ID
    036984
    Story no
    6 / 8

    Large factory works to full capacity manufacturing lenses for cameras, telescopes etc. used by fighting services.

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  9. Astronomy (1985 Video)

    Director
    Suzanne Campbell-Jones
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how the development of bigger and better computerised telescopes has advanced knowledge of the night sky.

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  10. Observatories, The (1982 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An overview of the research in astronomy being conducted at six American radio and optical observatories. Aspects of the radio and optical telescopes are explained. Graphics illustrate pulsars, black holes...

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