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 May 5, 2003. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

May 15th's Total Lunar Eclipse

Total Lunar Eclipse on the night of May 15-16. Sequence of events marked on the graphic are as follows:

1 - 9:05 p.m: Enters Penumbra
2 - 10:03 pm: Partial Eclipse Begins
3 - 11:14 pm: Total Eclipse Begins
4 - 11:40 pm: Mid-eclipse
5 - 12:06 am: Total Eclipse Ends
6 - 1:17 am: Partial Eclipse Ends
7 - 2:15 am: Leaves Penumbra

*All times are EDT.

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