#16 - October 2013

Highlights of September's skies at the AstroCamp star party with
the BBC TV cameras. The Sky at Night team joinined us for some
observing in Wales.


A penumbral lunar eclipse, a round up of the planets visible in
the northern hemisphere this month, a couple of meteor showers to
get you outside, and the deep sky treats in Perseus,
Camelopardalis and Auriga in our October sky guide.News that
Voyager 1 is in interstellar space, NASA's latest mission to
explore the thin lunar atmosphere and moon's dust and some
research to get us hopeful for a fine display from Comet ISON
later this year.


The violent but universe enriching 'Death of Stars' is explained
in Paul's 5 Minute Concept.


An interview on the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation,
astronomy research funding cuts and the Planck and Herschel space
telescopes in this month's interview with researcher, writer and
broadcaster Dr Chris North.


And in Q&A we answer listeners' questions on brown dwarfs and
Saturn's rings.