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 April 12th, 2010. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
Celebrate National Astronomy Day And If You Do It Right You'll See Several Planets And The Moon Close Up For Free
On April 24th look east after sunset for the Moon and Saturn:

Look west to see Venus low near the horizon with the Pleiades, and Mars higher overhead.

The images here are from mid-northern latitudes.
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Click here for an archive of the past shows.
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