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 19, 2005. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Four Fabulous Planets For The Holidays

During the last two weeks of December, Mars is high in the SouthEast and Venus low in the SouthWest, about 45 minutes after sunset as seen from mid Northern latitudes.