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