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 December 02, 2002. You can
view the complete show script, or watch
a RealPlayer video of the show.
December's Days Of Earliest Sunsets Venus Reaches Greatest Brilliancy And Orion Announces The Coming Of Winter
Venus reaches greatest brilliancy this week. This view shows the sky on December 7 at around 7:00 AM, as seen from mid-northern latitudes.
Orion the Hunter rises early in the evening.This view shows the sky on December 7 at around 8:00 PM, as seen from mid-northern latitudes.