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 September 16, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Weekend Of The Harvest Moon And The Autumnal Equinox

The Harvest Moon is the closest full Moon to the Autumn Equinox. During this time, there is little difference in the time of Moon rise between successive days.