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 23, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Venus At Greatest Brilliancy And Two Wonderful Morning Planets

See Venus at its brightest on September 26th.

Saturn and Jupiter are getting higher and higher in the sky and earlier each evening.