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 November 4, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Get Ready For What May be The Last Great Leonid Meteor Storm For 100 Years!

The Leonid radiant (marked by the blue "dot") is the point from which the meteors seem to originate. This view shows the sky at 2 AM and 5 AM local time on November 19 (night of November 18), as seen from mid-northern latitudes.