Stargazing

Synopsis: An animated atlas of the night skies, it signposts and explains season-by-season, from anywhere on Earth.
Animated vignettes turn points of light - stars, nebulae, galaxies - into supernovae, flashing pulsars, searing quasars and rotating swarms of 150-billion stars with supermassive black holes at their centres. There are six episodes:

1 How The Sky Works
2 The Cosmos: January - March
3 The Cosmos: April - June
4 The Cosmos: July - September
5 The Cosmos: October - December
6 Vagabonds (Comets, asteroids and meteorites)

Episodes 2 to 5 of Stargazing each divide into three chapters which, in turn, split into several sub-chapters. The sky is viewed from three latitute bands - from the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere (Japan, Europe, North America), from the tropics, and from the mid-latitudes of the southern hemisphere (Australasia and southern South America).
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2003
Year of production: 2002
Subjects: Astronomy
Keywords: stars

Name: York Films of England
Email: office@yorkfilms.com
Web: http://www.yorkfilms.com External site opens in new window
Phone: 01303 226 2345
Fax: 01303 858 196
Address: 23 Bradstone Avenue
Folkestone
Kent
CT19 5AQ
Notes: York Films specialises in producing science programming for television, particularly space and astronomy, with a strong emphasis on using CGI. Several series are available for sale on DVD on topics including Nobel prizewinners, bee breeding and six programmes on the bicycle.

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