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 18, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Inconstant Moon

The full moon on February 27 is the closest and brightest of the year.

The distance between the earth and moon can vary by up to 50 000 kilometres