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StarGazer
Each week most PBS stations air Star
Gazer with Jack Horkheimer, the world's first and only weekly TV series
on naked-eye astronomy. The images on this page illustrate the show for
the week of Monday,
August 14, 2000.
Using The Moon To Find Four Planets In Late Summer Skies
Jupiter, Saturn and the moon are almost in a straight line in the eastern sky on the morning of August 22. The bright star Aldebaran has just come above the horizon.
The moon moves between Jupiter and Aldebaran on the morning of August 23. At 1 am, the 3 objects make a triangle, while by 7 am, they are arranged on a straight line.
Early risers can watch the moon move from Jupiter to Mars the week of August 23-28. On August 23 it is just beside Jupiter, and by August 28 it has fallen below Mars.
