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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,
March 12, 2001.
The Red Planet Meets Its Red Rival!
Mars and the bright red star Antares are close together in Scorpius in the month of March. Look to the south before the sun rises.
The best morning to get up early may be March 15, when the moon will complete a pretty triangle with Mars and Antares.
Mars starts its retrograde loop near Scorpius in early May, which continues until midsummer when it again begins to move to the left, relative to the background stars.
