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 17, 2006. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Moon And Venus Make An Awesome Pair And Jupiter Sidles Up To The Scorpion's Claw!

Venus and the Moon about an hour before sunrise on April 24, facing east southeast from mid northern latitudes.