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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,
May 1, 2000.
How To Use The Moon To Find The Lion,The Virgin and The Scorpion
A look at the moon's path across the southern horizon in mid-May.
On May 10, a first quarter moon is inside Leo the Lion, just to the right of Leo's brightest star, Regulus. Observers can look for the pair just after sunset high in the southwest.
By May 14, the moon has grown almost full and moved east across the southern sky. It is now just above Spica, one of few bright stars in an otherwise desolate section of the sky.
Finally on May 18, the full moon is above Antares. Most of the Scorpion is still below the horizon at midnight, and will rise over the next few hours.
