Starry Night This Week
Each week most PBS stations air "Jack
Horkheimer: Star Gazer", the world's first and only weekly TV series
on naked-eye astronomy. The Starry Night images on this page illustrate
the show for the week of Monday, January 21, 2002. You can
view the complete show script, or watch
a RealPlayer video of the show.
The Shoulder and Knee Stars Of Winter's Most Famous Constellation, Orion The Hunter
Orion the Hunter watches the southeastern skies in mid-winter.
The shoulder and knee stars of Orion. Notice the reddish tinge of Betelgeuse.