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.