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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,
July 31, 2000.
A Planet Named George and How To Find It Next Week ... Maybe
Uranus and Neptune both lie within Capricorn, which is due south around midnight in August. Uranus can just be seen with the eye in very dark skies, while Neptune will be invisible without binoculars.
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Even through binoculars, Uranus will resemble a dim star.
A close-up look of Uranus as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
