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 4, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

An Exquisite Crescent Moon Pays A Very Close Visit To The Pleiades The Seven Sisters

The Crescent Moon near the Pleiades on April 11. Looking west about 8:30PM local time, as seen from mid Northern latitudes.