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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,
October 16, 2000.
The Witching Hour and The Pleiades Hour and The End Of The World On Hallowe'en!
The Pleiades is a spectacular star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
Although you can see the Pleiades with the naked eye, they look great through a pair of binoculars.
The Pleiades are high in the sky near the zenith on Halloween. Also visible nearby this year are Jupiter and Saturn.
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