... half-hour’s trilling. That evening another nightjar was heard trilling to the north. The sky was clear, although the night was chilly. The next night, with a clear sky, although still chilly, a third nightjar opened up to the south, much earlier, just after ...

... THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS June 20. 1953 ABOVE: SHIPS OUTLINED SILVER AGAINST THE DARK SKY OF NIGHT. CENTRE AND BELOW: SILHOUETTES OF VESSEIS REVEALED BY PLUMES AND CASCADES OF 'PYROTECHNICS; THE ILLUMINATIONS AND FIREWORKS AFTER THE CORONATION REVIEW ...

... the darkness of the night sky appear as a curious phenomenon. The argument leading up to this is so simple and attractive and beautiful that it may not be out of place to describe it here in full. When one looks at the sky at night one notices that there ...

... great splash of flaming colour which can be left to take care of itself. Of these, Shepherd's Delight named for that red-sky-at-night we have seen so rarely this year, is a good one among established varieties and has been given numerous awards. The newest ...

... miss the heart of the matter; there will be no grain of truth at the centre. The whole point about such jingles as ‘Red sky at night, Shepherd’s delight’ is that they work; they are distillations of direct observation, carried out over generations. That ...

... NICHOLAS SCIENTISTS, IS PRESENTED TO THE 8.8. C. FOR THE TELEVISION COLE ABBEY: THE WEATHER-VANE IS ADDED, o .. R°URAMME THE SKY AT NIGHT.” St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, in the City of London, bQme of the area shown is on the far side of the moon and suffered c ...

... denying that the moon, when it chooses to appear, is the principal object in the sky at night; or that the sun, when it chooses to appear, is the principal object in the sky during the day. All of which has not prevented a rash young colleague in criticism ...

... WAS THE OWNER OF A GONDOLA, NAPOLEON BY BARON GERARD (1770-1887), THE EARLIEST OF THE FRENCH PAINTINGS IN THE ' | A RED SKY AT NIGHT; SAN MARCO, VENICE BY WALTER SICKERT (1880-1942) WHO IS PERHAPS THE MOST POPULAR OF ALL ENGUSH ARTISTS OF THIS CENTURY ...

... peace been appreciably less than that inflicted during those apocalyptic months when the Luftwaffe rode lord of London’s sky by night, though not —thanks to the RAF’s salvationary victory in the autumn of 1940—by day. Yet hope springs eternal in the human ...

... 30 pm. Within these four walls, Patrick Moore on the role of the old Royal Observatory in developments in astronomy; The sky at night. Apr 24, 2.30 pm. Antarctic crossing, Fuchs at the South Pole. Apr 26, 2.30 pm. At the Planetarium: Mariner visits Mercury ...

... THE SKY AT NIGHT PATRICK MOOT Celestial fireworks Each year, towards the end of July, the night sky is enlivened by the appearance of many bright shootingstars or meteors. Some of them may outshine any of the true stars; they flash into view, have their ...

... THE SKY AT NIGHT across the field of view will be caught. Some really spectacular pictures have been taken in this way. The Perseids give us the best reliable display each year, but there are also many other showers. For instance, there are the Quadrantids ...