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JO JARVIS:

We've got a lovely clear sky tonight.

ALAN CAYLESS:

We have. It's pretty cold, but then, the best nights for astronomy often are.

JO JARVIS:

That's very true. I'm Jo Jarvis, I'm public engagement officer for the School of Physical Sciences at the Open University.

ALAN CAYLESS:

I'm Alan Cayless, and I'm a physicist an astronomer at the Open University.

JO JARVIS:

During this first week of the course, we're hoping to guide you around the night sky and prove that you don't have to have a telescope to learn your way around. In fact, Alan, you started off with binoculars, didn't you?

ALAN CAYLESS:

That's right, yes. The important thing is to find your way around the night sky so that you know what you're looking at. And there's a lot that you can see just with a simple pair of binoculars. So as long as you know where to find the objects that you're interested in, there's always something fascinating to look at in the night sky.

JO JARVIS:

So let's go for it. Let's see what we can find in the night sky.