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 January 4th, 2010. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
Super Cosmic Fun : How To Play The Mars / Sirius Game!
In early January check out Orion in the south, and use his belt to point to Sirius:

Then turn to your left and look east for Leo and Mars. Watch over the next few weeks and compare Sirius to the brightening Mars!

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Click here for an archive of the past shows.
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