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 October 9, 2006. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

USE THE MOON TO FIND THE HEART AND THE TAIL OF LEO THE LION AND THE RINGED PLANET

The Moon and Saturn about an hour before sunrise on October 16. View as seen from mid northern latitudes.