Starry Night This Week

Each week most PBS stations air "Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer", the world's first and only weekly TV series on naked-eye astronomy. The Starry Night images on this page illustrate the show for the week of Monday, December 24, 2001. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

A Full Moon and The King of The Planets At Its Brightest and Closest Overhead At Midnight On New Year's Eve!

Jupiter is due south at midnight to ring in the new year. Saturn and the bright star Sirius are also easy to spot.

A close-up of Jupiter and its moons, as they will appear on New Year's Eve at midnight. The fourth major moon (Callisto) is too far away from Jupiter to be seen in this image.

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Click here for an archive of the past shows.