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 June 1, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

How To Find The Two Largest Planets
Using The Moon As A Finder

Before sunrise this week, northern hemisphere observers can spot Jupiter and the Moon close together in the southern sky:

Or, wait until the end of the month and look west after sunset to see the Moon and Saturn: