Đối với tuần đầu tiên của năm mới, một vài chương trình trên BBC2 để kỷ niệm 400 năm quan sát thiên văn đầu tiên được thực hiện với kính viễn vọng. Đầu tiên của các chương trình này là "Sky at Night". | Chapter 35 Four Hundred Years of the Telescope Allan Chapman and myself on 15 February 2008 Credit Patrick Moore For the first week of the New Year several programmes on BBC2 were to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical observations made with telescopes. The first of these programmes was the Sky at Night . We decided to look back at some of the telescopes we had visited since that first programme way back in 1957. Various people were shown - in various locations - and we used extracts from the actual interviews. The earliest I think was with George Hole for the 50th programme. We were down at Brighton with George s fine 24-in. reflector hoping to give direct views of Jupiter and Saturn. Of course it was live - everything was in those days - so that we were at the mercy of the clouds. Five minutes before transmission and 5 min late the sky was brilliantly clear but during the actual transmission cloud-cover was complete. As George said Totally obscured P. Moore the Sky at Night DOI 978-1-4419-6409-0_35 Springer Science Business Media LLC 2010 137 138 35 Four Hundred Years of the Telescope I introduced the programme from my observatory at Selsey. Among astronomers shown were Allan Chapman Howard Bond Kim Hermann Peter Wehringer Roger Angel Pete Lawrence Michael Barstow Jeff Hoffman Geoff Marcy John Culshaw Michelle Dougherty Richard Ellis and of course Chris Lintott. Quite a galaxy -but it was a pity about those clouds. Who invented the telescope - and who first turned a telescope skyward Most people would say Galileo but they would be wrong. The first telescope about which we have definite information was made by a Dutchman Lippershey in 1608. Earlier reports coming from England are interesting but not conclusive. Unfortunately for himself Lippershey did not take prompt steps to establish priority and other telescopes quickly appeared over Europe. Galileo obtained one during 1609 and sparing neither trouble nor expanse as he put it .
