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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,
September 18, 2000.
Moon and Planet Games For The Last Week of September
September 25 brings a lovely triangle before sunrise composed of Mars, Regulus and the Moon. The path of Mars is plotted. Notice how close it came to Regulus earlier in the month.
Just after sunset, Venus can be seen beside a slender crescent moon on the evening of September 29.
