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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, April 16, 2001.

Celebrate National Astronomy Day On Saturday April 28th! And The Moon Pays A Last Visit To Saturn and Jupiter

There is a plethora of interesting things in the Western sky after dark on Mrch 25. Look for Jupiter, Saturn , a frist quarter moon, the Pleiades star cluster and the constellation Orion.

The next night finds the moon has moved higher in the sky, up and to the left of Jupiter.

After coming very close together back in January, Jupiter and Saturn are now moving apart. This shows their path through Taurus in 2001. Click here to see a QuickTime movie (1 MB) of this motion.



 


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