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 May 12, 2003. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Farewell To Orion And Saturn And Hello, Hello To Mars & The Moon

The most beautiful of all planets, Saturn, begins to disappear from the night sky. Seen here in the pre-dawn sky.

On Wednesday May 21st, the Moon and Mars come very close together in the early morning sky. Shown here at 5 am.