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 December 5, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.
The Closest Planet To The Sun Is At Its Best The Second Week of December
Mercury and Jupiter in the South-West about 45 minutes before sunrise for several days around December 10, as seen from mid northern latitudes.