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 October 19th, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
Mars And The Manger Plus The God Of War
Steps Into A Cosmic Beehive Just As You
Set Your Clocks Back To Standard Time
Follow the arrow from Orion's belt to Sirius to Procyon and then to the Beehive -- where Mars hides on the morning of November 1.

Pick up your binoculars and try to find the red planet amongst all the bee stars!
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Click here for an archive of the past shows.
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