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StarGazer
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, March 6, 2000.
The Strange and Marvelous Reality of the Brightest Star We See the Most Often
Using the Big Dipper to point to Capella. Immediately to Capella's left are the three dim stars known as "The Kids". Capella is high overhead in the north-northwest in the March evening sky, as seen from mid-northern latitudes. This view was taken on March 1 at 9:30, from Montreal.
A closer look at Capella and its three "kids".
