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 July 31, 2006. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

See The Two Planets Closest to The Sun Side By Side

Venus and Mercury low in the northeast 45 minutes before sunrise around August 3. View as seen from mid northern latitudes.