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 December 21st, 2009. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Howl In the Blue Full Moon This New Year's Eve!
And You May Win a Telescope!

The second full Moon of December 2009 rises in the northeast after sunset on December 31. Happy New Year!