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 April 12th, 2010. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Cosmic Night Of The IRS : A Crescent Moon Visits Mercury!
Plus Venus Begins A Trip To The Seven Sisters

See Mercury and a very young crescent Moon after sunset on 15 April. It'll be a pretty and squinty sight. Grab your binoculars.

Watch the Moon over the next few weeks as it passes through the Pleiades on the 16th.