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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, January 1, 2001.

January Is 'How To Use Your New Telescope' Month

This image shows some of the prominent objects in the January sky. We’ll take a look at three of them through a 100-power telescope-Jupiter, the Orion Nebula and the Pleiades.

Jupiter will still appear quite small through the telescope, but its 4 main moons will be visible as small dots.

The Orion Nebula is much larger and will cover most of the view. You will be able to see bright stars against a background nebula.

The Pleiades cluster is even larger and won’t fit inside a telescope at 100 power. You will need either a lower-power eyepiece or a pair if binoculars to fit the whole cluster in!



 


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