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 August 15, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

A Preview Of Winter's Stars in August And Saturn And Mercury Are Visited By The Moon

Winter constellations preview the morning sky. Looking east about 45 minutes before sunrise for about a week around August 20, as seen from mid-northern latitudes.