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 May 13, 2002. You can view the complete show script, or watch a RealPlayer video of the show.

Awesome Arcturus : Star Of A Million Years

The constellation Bootes, the herdsman, is one of the oldest constellations and home to the fourth brightest star in the sky - Arcturus.

Use the handle of the Big Dipper as a celestial guide post to find Arcturus.