“Celebrate New Year's Eve with the New Year's Eve Star”

Scheduled air date: 2005 Dec 26-2006 Jan 01


At local midnight, New Year's morning—regardless of your location on Earth—the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius, reaches its highest point in the sky.
(Shown at midnight, morning of January 1st for mid-Northern latitudes.)

If you wish to view illustrations for other episodes, please see our Star Gazer Illustrated directory.


Illustrations on this page were created using TheSky6 Astronomy Software, an advanced desktop planetarium program designed for Windows 98, NT, 2000, Me and XP.

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