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 11, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Moon Visits Two Giants

The moon covers Saturn for up to 90 minutes on the night of February 20.

Two days later, it almost crosses in front of Jupiter.