Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer | |
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Season 1999 | |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Release | |
Original network | PBS |
Original release | January 4 – December 27, 1999 |
Season chronology |
The 1999 season of the astronomy TV show Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer starring Jack Horkheimer started on January 4, 1999. The episode numbering scheme for the show changed again in this season. Episode numbering was restarted and incorporated the last two digits of the year, in this case "99" for the year 1999. The official Star Gazer website hosts the complete scripts for each of the shows. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
# | # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1100 | #SG 99-01 | "The Evening Star and the Seventh Planet and Earth Closest To The Sun This Week!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | January 4, 1999 |
1101 | #SG 99-02 | "Hail Caesar and Happy New Year! And Getting Ready for A Super-Duper Grand Conjunction of the Two Brightest Planets!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | January 11, 1999 |
1102 | #SG 99-03 | "The Orion Nebula: A True Winter Wonder!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | January 18, 1999 |
1103 | #SG 99-04 | "Two Blue Moons For 1999! And The Big Blue Moon Brouhaha" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | January 25, 1999 |
1104 | #SG 99-05 | "A Great Big Red Star for Valentine's Day: About As Big and as Red as It Gets!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | February 1, 1999 |
1105 | #SG 99-06 | "A Cosmic Switcheroo! The 8th & 9th Planets Change Places This Week! And Getting Ready for February 23rd's Super Duper Conjunction!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | February 8, 1999 |
1106 | #SG 99-07 | "How To Watch Next Week's Spectacular Super-Duper Meeting of the Planets" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | February 15, 1999 |
1107 | #SG 99-08 | "The Elusive First Planet and How to Find It Easy as Pie" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | February 22, 1999 |
1108 | #SG 99-09 | "Four Planets In A Bundle For Your Early Evening Viewing Pleasure" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | March 1, 1999 |
1109 | #SG 99-10 | "An Exquisite Celestial Trio with Exotic Earthshine, Friday March 19th" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | March 8, 1999 |
1110 | #SG 99-11 | "Spring Is Here! At Least According To the Yellow Line In The Middle Of the Road" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | March 15, 1999 |
1111 | #SG 99-12 | "The Beginning of Spring and The End of Winter Reflected in the Stars and A Blue Moon Update" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | March 22, 1999 |
1112 | #SG 99-13 | "April 1999: The Month of Mars" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | March 29, 1999 |
1113 | #SG 99-14 | "A New Way to Use the Big Dipper and Venus Pays A Visit to the Seven Sisters" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | April 5, 1999 |
1114 | #SG 99-15 | "The Weekend of Nine Cosmic Ladies and The Great Red Star" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | April 12, 1999 |
1115 | #SG 99-16 | "Mars At Opposition This Week! Closest and Brightest Since 1990!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | April 19, 1999 |
1116 | #SG 99-17 | "The Truth about the North Star and How to Find It" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | April 26, 1999 |
1117 | #SG 99-18 | "A Super Close Up Look at Mars Which Is Still At Its Brightest Since 1990!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | May 3, 1999 |
1118 | #SG 99-19 | "Venus, Earth's Twin Sister, Takes Over Evening Skies" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | May 10, 1999 |
1119 | #SG 99-20 | "How to Find Virgo and Its Brightest Star Spica" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | May 17, 1999 |
1120 | #SG 99-21 | "The Gemini Twins and the Goddess of Love and The Smallest Full Moon of the Year" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | May 24, 1999 |
1121 | #SG 99-22 | "Awesome Arcturus: Find It Now Before it's Gone" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | May 31, 1999 |
1122 | #SG 99-23 | "Mars and Spica Closest This Week, Mercury Puts In An Appearance, and A Venus / Moon Super Goody!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | June 7, 1999 |
1123 | #SG 99-24 | "What the Night Sky Looks Like On the First Night of Summer" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | June 14, 1999 |
1124 | #SG 99-25 | "The Most Difficult to Find of All the Naked Eye Planets and How to Find It!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | June 21, 1999 |
1125 | #SG 99-26 | "What to See in the Sky on The 4th Of July!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | June 28, 1999 |
1126 | #SG 99-27 | "Don't Miss July 15th's Super Duper Spectacular Cosmic Trio! A Real Knock Your Socks off Sky Show!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | July 5, 1999 |
1127 | #SG 99-28 | "How to Watch Two Bright Planets and Two Bright Stars as They Move Away From Each Other" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | July 12, 1999 |
1128 | #SG 99-29 | "The Scorpion and The Pussycat and How To Find Them!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | July 19, 1999 |
1129 | #SG 99-30 | "A Moon Journey Past Cosmic Wonders In Early Morning Skies" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | July 26, 1999 |
1130 | #SG 99-31 | "Don't Miss Next Week's Perseid Meteor Shower Because This Year, Conditions Are Ideal For It!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | August 2, 1999 |
1131 | #SG 99-32 | "Mercury and The Gemini Twins and The Heliacal Rising Of the Dog Star!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | August 9, 1999 |
1132 | #SG 99-33 | "How To Use Mars To Find The Two Most Tongue Twisting Stars In The Cosmos!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | August 16, 1999 |
1133 | #SG 99-34 | "The Two Marvelous Star Clusters That Ride above the Scorpion's Tail!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | August 23, 1999 |
1134 | #SG 99-35 | "How to find The 'False Dawn' Of an Ancient Persian Poet" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | August 30, 1999 |
1135 | #SG 99-36 | "Mars Meets Its Rival! And Won't Be This Close Again Until 2016!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | September 6, 1999 |
1136 | #SG 99-37 | "The Two Days of the Year When the Sun Rises Due East and Sets Due Due West" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | September 13, 1999 |
1137 | #SG 99-38 | "A Trick You Can Do With A Dime and The Harvest Moon" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | September 20, 1999 |
1138 | #SG 99-39 | "A Parade of Planets from Sunset to Sunrise" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | September 27, 1999 |
1139 | #SG 99-40 | "The Moon and Venus, The Moon and Mercury and The Moon and Mars!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | October 4, 1999 |
1140 | #SG 99-41 | "Stars For an Indian Summer!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | October 11, 1999 |
1141 | #SG 99-42 | "Jupiter at Its Brightest and Closest in A Dozen Years!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | October 18, 1999 |
1142 | #SG 99-43 | "Venus at Its Highest and Brightest for the Year!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | October 25, 1999 |
1143 | #SG 99-44 | "Saturn at Opposition This Week and As Big and as Bright as It Ever Gets!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | November 1, 1999 |
1144 | #SG 99-45 | "Will Next Week's Leonid Meteor Shower Turn into A Meteor Storm?!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | November 8, 1999 |
1145 | #SG 99-46 | "A Meteor Storm Alert! And Our Moon Pays A Visit to the Two Largest Planets" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | November 15, 1999 |
1146 | #SG 99-47 | "Another Cosmic Triangle and The Time Machine Effect!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | November 22, 1999 |
1147 | #SG 99-48 | "The Moon Meets the Pink Iron Planet" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | November 29, 1999 |
1148 | #SG 99-49 | "The Geminid Meteor Shower, Plus the Moon and Mars and A Planet Named George!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | December 6, 1999 |
1149 | #SG 99-50 | "The Astonishing Lunar Illumination of December 22nd, 1999! The Brightest First Night of Winter In 133 years!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | December 13, 1999 |
1150 | #SG 99-51 | "The Winter Solstice and Why The Shortest Day of The Year Doesn't Feel Like The Shortest" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | December 20, 1999 |
1151 | #SG 99-52 | "A Star for the Millennium! A Cosmic Way to Ring in the New Year!" | -- | Jack Horkheimer | December 27, 1999 |
Star Gazers is a short astronomy show on American public television previously hosted by Jack Horkheimer, executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. After his death in 2010, a series of guest astronomers hosted until 2011, when Dean Regas, James Albury, and Marlene Hidalgo became permanent co-hosts. In 2019, Dean Regas and James Albury stepped down from the program and were replaced by Trace Dominguez. On the weekly program, the host informs the viewer of significant astronomical events for the upcoming week, including key constellations, stars and planets, lunar eclipses and conjunctions, as well as historical and scientific information about these events.
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