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 April 28, 2003. You can
view the complete show script, or watch
a RealPlayer video of the show.
The Dual Lunar Eclipses Of 2003!
Total Lunar Eclipse on the night of May 15-16. Sequence of events marked on the graphic are as follows:
1 - 9:05 p.m: Enters Penumbra
2 - 10:03 pm: Partial Eclipse Begins
3 - 11:14 pm: Total Eclipse Begins
4 - 11:40 pm: Mid-eclipse
5 - 12:06 am: Total Eclipse Ends
6 - 1:17 am: Partial Eclipse Ends
7 - 2:15 am: Leaves Penumbra
*All times are EDT.