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.