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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 1, 2001.
See The Milky Way and Its Brightest Constellations At Their Very Best Next Week Just After Dark
Two of the three bright stars in the Summer Triangle-Altair and Deneb- are embedded in the Milky Way, as is the 'W' of Cassiopeia.
The Milky Way appears as a band from Earth, but that is only because we are inside the plane of the Milky Way, about 2/3 of the way from the center.
