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 January 3, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

All Five Of The Naked Eye Planets Ring In The New Year

Facing south-east about 45 minutes before sunrise of January 4 as seen from mid northern latitudes. This is the view for about a week before and after, except for the position of the moon