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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,
May 14, 2001.
Last Chance To See Jupiter; Mercury Meets The Moon; And The Hidden Splendor of Gemini!
On May 24, Mercury is just to the right of the slender crescent moon after sunset.
A very powerful telescope would reveal that Mercury is also a crescent in the sky at this time.
Two nights later, the moon has moved far up and to the left of Mercury, near Gemini's bright 'twins', Castor and Pollux.
