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 November 16th, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

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Anytime this week, northern hemisphere observers can go out in the evening and look north for Cassiopeia and the Big Dipper on opposite sides of Polaris. Note that if you're quite far north this will all be up over your head, and for lower latitudes the Big Dipper might not clear the horizon depending on when you look.