BBC Sky at Night magazine

In this episode Will Gater travels to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire to meet MIRI, one of the instruments which will fly on board the James Webb Space Telescope, and speak to some of the scientists involved with the project.

In this month's episode of the vodcast we give you lots of advice about buying your first telescope. From the various types of telescopes available to the different mounts they sit on, we answer some of the most frequently asked questions about buying your first scope.

This month Sky at Night Magazine's Will Gater travels to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich to report from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards 2010.

This month Sky at Night Magazine's news editor Will Gater travels to the Salisbury Star Party in Wiltshire to speak to some of the attendees about their telescopes and their experiences of the star party.

For this month's episode of the vodcast we thought it'd be fun to show you how we produce the monthly reviews section of Sky at Night Magazine. A surprising amount of work goes on behind the scenes between the telescopes being tested under the night sky and the review you see printed in the magazine pages.

In this month's episode we get an update on the recent Space Shuttle mission and activities on the International Space Station, take a look at the amazing new image from the Herschel Infrared Space Telescope and bring you right up to date with what to look out for in the May night skies.

This month's episode covers new images of Saturn's aurorae from Hubble, an exciting new citizen science project and the first images from NASA's WISE spacecraft.