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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,
October 23, 2000.
A Venus and Crescent Moon Sky Goody and Say Farewell To Sagittarius
Step outside just after dusk on October 29 and look southwest to see Venus and a crescent moon side-by-side. The bright red star Antares lies just beneath Venus.
By November 1, the Moon has moved south, just above the “Teapot”, a grouping of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. Venus is still visible just above the horizon.
The patch of sky between Venus and the moon on November 1 is in the plane of the Milky Way, so it contains many star clusters and nebulae for stargazers to look for. Three of the most famous nebulae are identified in this image.
