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 March 17, 2008. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

A Pithy Poem For The First Day Of Spring

If we project an imaginary "equator" from the Earth onto the sky, the Sun will cross it on the Spring Equinox, March 21st. The place in the sky where the Sun crosses the celestial equator in the spring also defines the location of the celestial meridian.

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Click here for an archive of the past shows.