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 March 12, 2007. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

The Moon And Venus Make An Exquisite Showing On The First Night Of Spring Plus A Super Close Pairing Of The Moon And Saturn

On March 20 the crescent Moon and Venus in the western sky about an hour after sunset, as seen from mid northern latitudes