STAR GAZER Illustrated
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This section provides illustrations for current astronomical events, based upon episodes of the "Star Gazer" television program. All illustrations are created using Software Bisque's TheSky Astronomy Software.
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2002 Episodes
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Fourth Quarter, 2002
- 2002 Dec 30-04 "2003: The Year of the Amateur Telescope; A Cosmic Preview"
- 2002 Dec 23-29 "Celebrate 2003 with the New Year's Eve Star and the Two Largest Planets at Their Best"
- 2002 Dec 16-22 "What is the Winter Solstice—the First Day of Winter—Really all About?"
- 2002 Dec 09-15 "Saturn comes into Opposition December 17th, and Will Be at its Biggest and Brightest"
- 2002 Dec 02-08 "December's Days of Earliest Sunsets, Venus Reaches Greatest Brilliancy, and; Orion Announces the Coming of Winter"
- 2002 Nov 25-01 "Begin Your December with a Super Celestial Triangle"
- 2002 Nov 18-24 "Our Star Gazer Annual '3 Cosmic Birds For Thanksgiving' Show"
- 2002 Nov 11-17 "Planets Aplenty for both Night Owls and Early Birds"
- 2002 Nov 04-10 "Get Ready for What May Be the Last Great Leonid Meteor Storm for 100 Years!"
- 2002 Oct 28-03 "How to Look Back in Time Over Two Million Years"
- 2002 Oct 21-27 "The Seven Sisters and Halloween and The End Of The World"
- 2002 Oct 14-20 "This Year's Very Special Hunter's Moon"
- 2002 Oct 07-13 "The Early Bird not only Gets the Worm, but also 4 Pre-Dawn Planets Lined Up in a Row"
Third Quarter, 2002
- 2002 Sep 30-06 "Mars and Mercury Pair Up, and; The Rival of Mars Says Good-bye"
- 2002 Sep 23-29 "Venus at Greatest Brilliancy, and; Two Wonderful Morning Planets"
- 2002 Sep 16-22 "Weekend of the Harvest Moon and the Autumnal Equinox"
- 2002 Sep 09-15 "The Annual Return of the False Dawn of Omar Khayyam, and; How to Find it Next Week"
- 2002 Sep 02-08 "Last Chance to See Venus and the Moon as an Evening Pair, and; A Wonderful Star Named Spica"
- 2002 Aug 26-01 "The Summer Triangle Blazes Overhead for the Labor Day Weekend"
- 2002 Aug 19-25 "An Ancient Archer Aims His Arrow at the Heart of the Scorpion and at the Heart of the Galaxy"
- 2002 Aug 12-18 "The Great Mars Approach Begins as Mars Prepares for its Closest Meeting with Earth in 60,000 Years!"
- 2002 Aug 05-11 "Venus Meets the Moon, and; The Night of St. Lawrence's Tears"
- 2002 Jul 29-04 "How to Get Started in Astronomy, and; The Two Comets that Never Were"
- 2002 Jul 22-28 "The Wonderful Cats' Eyes of Summer's Skies"
- 2002 Jul 15-21 "A Cosmic City of a Million Stars and How To Find It"
- 2002 Jul 07-14 "The Two 'Mairzy Doats and Dozey Doats' and 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius' Stars of the Cosmos"
- 2002 Jul 01-06 "Earth at Aphelion; Saturn Meets the Moon, and; Venus Meets the Heart of Leo"
Second Quarter, 2002
- 2002 Jun 24-30 "How to See a Super Special Sky Show Right After the Fireworks on the 4th Of July"
- 2002 Jun 17-23 "What the Stars Look Like on the First Nights of Summer"
- 2002 Jun 10-16 "Day Star Day: An Annual Star Gazer Celebration of the Summer Solstice and Our Closest Star"
- 2002 Jun 03-09 "Even though the Great Planetary Lineup is over, the Super Jupiter/Venus/Moon Sky Show Continues"
- 2002 May 27-02 "Venus and Jupiter Versus the Gemini Twins!"
- 2002 May 20-26 "The Two Brightest Planets Meet While the Twin Stars of Gemini Look On"
- 2002 May 13-19 "Awesome Arcturus: Star of a Million Years"
- 2002 May 06-12 "May 14th is Super Venus/Moon Day! And; The Great Planet Gathering and Dance Continues"
- 2002 Apr 29-05 "Planets in a Super Huddle: The Great Planetary Gathering Continues and Becomes Even More Spectacular"
- 2002 Apr 22-28 "The Incredible Planetary Pin Ball Game During The Great Planetary Lineup"
- 2002 Apr 15-21 "Celebrate National Astronomy Day with The Best Planetary Lineup in 2 Decades!"
- 2002 Apr 08-14 "The Great Planetary Line-Up Begins, and You Can Watch it All with Just the Naked Eye"
- 2002 Apr 01-07 "How to Look Back in Time Using the Most Famous Star Pattern of Them All"
First Quarter, 2002
- 2002 Mar 25-31 "Two Sure Signs of Spring: Low Lyin' Orion and a High Flyin' Lion"
- 2002 Mar 18-24 "The Second-Biggest Full Moon of 2002 Glides Across the Sky with the Brightest Star of Virgo"
- 2002 Mar 11-17 "Why is Spring Called Spring? and; What Does Spring Have To Do with the Yellow Line in the Middle of the Road?"
- 2002 Mar 04-10 "Venus Returns for St. Patrick's Day, and; Getting Ready for the Great Planetary Lineup"
- 2002 Feb 25-03 "Saturn at its Best Since the 70's"
- 2002 Feb 18-24 "The Two Incredibly Close Full Moons of 2002, And the Farthest"
- 2002 Feb 11-17 "The Moon has Two Super Meetings with Two Super Planets and Plays 'Now You See It/Now You Don't' with Saturn"
- 2002 Feb 04-10 "A Giant Red Star for Valentine's Day, and How To Find It"
- 2002 Jan 28-03 "The Wonderful Stars of Orion's Belt, and; How They Turned Me On To Star Gazing"
- 2002 Jan 21-27 "The Shoulder and Knee Stars of Winter's Most Famous Constellation, Orion the Hunter"
- 2002 Jan 14-20 "The Moon has Two Near Misses with Two Planets!"
- 2002 Jan 07-13 "The Winter Hexagon and the Summer Triangle In the Sky at the Same Time, Right Now In the Dead Of Winter, Would You Believe?"
See the Star Gazer Home Page for scripts for each of the above episodes, and more.
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