From 3 to 5 January 2011 , Ó Briain and Brian Cox presented '' Stargazing Live '' on BBC Two , three programmes based at the Jodrell Bank Observatory , scheduled to coincide with the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus , a partial solar eclipse , and the Quadrantid meteor shower . The two presenters hosted a second series of three-hour-long programmes , plus follow-up 30-minute shows called '' Stargazing Live : Back to Earth '' , from 16 to 18 January 2012 . From 8 to 10 January 2013 , they presented the third series , again accompanied by '' Back to Earth ''
partial solar eclipse
Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011
Dara Ó Briain