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 09, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Saturn Comes Into Opposition December 17th And Will Be At Its Biggest and Brightest it Ever Gets

Saturn reaches opposition on December 17th. This view shows the sky on December 17 at around 8:00 PM, as seen from mid-northern latitudes.