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 July 14, 2003. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Jupiter And Mercury Meet And Change Places And Our Moon Pays A Visit To Saturn

On the night of July 25th, Jupiter and Mercury will be less than a full Moon's width apart (they will be very low on the horizon). This view shows the sky at 9:00 PM from mid-northern latitudes.

On the morning of July 27th, Saturn and the Moon will be about 10 Moon widths apart (they will be very low on the horizon). This view shows the sky at 4:00 AM from mid-northern latitudes.