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 April 21, 2003. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Two Wonderful Stars Of Spring: One Racing Toward Us And The Other Speeding Away!

Use the Big Dipper's handle and its curve to arc to Arcturus and then speed on to Spica. This view shows the sky at 9:00 PM in late April, as seen from mid-northern latitudes.

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Click here for an archive of the past shows.