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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,
August 21, 2000.
A City Of Stars In Summer Skies
The 3 bright stars of the Summer Triangle dominate the summer sky. From mid-northern latitudes, Vega and Deneb will be almost directly overhead at 10:00 PM in late August.
You can draw a straight line connecting the bright stars Deneb, Vega and Arcturus. The Hercules cluster lies about halfway between Vega and Arcturus.
A close-up look at the Hercules globular star cluster. This cluster contains as many as half a million stars.
