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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 22, 2001.
Two Side By Side Planets Glide Together For 11 Days In Pre-Dawn Skies
For more than a week in late October and early November, Venus and Mercury will be separated by less than one degree.
You will need to get up early to see this pair of planets, rising in the eastern sky just before dawn.
A pair of binoculars will reveal more detail.
