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StarGazer
Each week most PBS stations air Star
Gazer with Jack Horkheimer, the world's first and only weekly TV series
on naked-eye astronomy. The images on this page illustrate the show for
the week of Monday,
April, 17, 2000.
How To Time Travel Through The Big Dipper
The Big Dipper, Little Dipper and the "W" of Cassiopeia, as seen just before dawn in April from mid-northern latitudes.
One of the stars in the Big Dipper, Mizar, is actually a double star, as we can see in this image. The second star in the double is named Alcor. If we looked at Mizar through a good telescope, we would see it split again into two stars, known as Mizar A and B. In fact, scientists have discovered that both Mizar A and B are themselves double stars!
