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 April 8, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Great Planetary Line-Up Begins

April 14th just after sunset at dusk, facing west where you will see an exquisite pairing of a 2 day old slender sliver of a crescent Moon with the brightest planet of them all, a planet the same size as our earth and our nearest planet neighbor, 8,000 mile wide Venus.