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 July 18, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Use the Moon To Find Mars Which Is Now Brighter Than Almost All The Stars In The Sky

The Moon near Mars about 1:00am local time on July 27, as seen from mid-northern latitudes.