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 10, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Saturn Is At Opposition This Week And At Its Closest, Brightest And Biggest For The Entire Year

Facing east about an hour after sunset, as seen from mid northern latitudes during mid January.