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 25, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
An Update On One Of The Most Beloved Star Patterns In The Heavens: The Big Dipper
The Big Dipper (Ursa Major) and the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor), about an hour after sunset during the first half of May, as seen from mid Northern latitudes.