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Getting Ready For a Great Meeting of the Planets
Each week most PBS stations air Star
Gazer with Jack Horkheimer, the world's first and only weekly TV series
on naked-eye astronomy. The images on this page illustrate the show for
the week of Monday, February 28.
The progress of the moon past Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in early March. Points along the green line mark the moon's location at 7:00 pm on the date in question, as seen from Washington, D.C.
Three views taken on the first of each month show how Jupiter, Saturn and Mars come closer together throughout the winter.
