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 February 4, 2002. You can
view the complete show script, or watch
a RealPlayer video of the show.
Orion's Valentine
The bright red giant Betelgeuse marks the shoulder of Orion
Earlier in the evening, a crescent moon can be seen in the west, along with another famous red object- the planet Mars.