![]() Star Gazers guides viewers to search the skies based on visibility in the eastern United States, but viewers across the country in different time zones can still benefit from the short episodes that public television stations air either between regularly scheduled programming or online. Said Dominguez of his new role on Star Gazers as an ambassador of astronomy, “If it's out there, I'm looking for a better way to understand it - and I’m very excited to join my new friends in public television for this adventure.” His decade of work as a science educator includes the launch of one of YouTube’s first daily science shows among his dozens of popular online channels dedicated to discovery the Webby-winning launch of a 360-degree camera on a weather balloon to the stratosphere and co-hosted segments with President Obama during the White House’s Science Week. Series host Trace Dominguez is widely praised as an award-winning and inspiring science communicator, content creator and curiosity explorer. We are grateful for this partnership with South Florida PBS and hope to expand upon it with future projects.” The award-winning astronomer has made extensive use of the Hubble Space Telescope and has an exceptional ‘h-index’ scholar score of 45 for scientific publication. Series consultant Ata Sarajedini, professor and the inaugural Bjorn Lamborn Endowed Chair in Astrophysics at Florida Atlantic University and Scientific Editor for the Journals of the American Astronomical Society, added, “ Star Gazers is a unique opportunity for FAU to share our strengths as a research university in a way that benefits the community at large and opens up astronomy to everyone. Since Horkheimer’s passing in 2010 Star Gazers has retained the spirit of accessible astronomy Horkheimer established, with the current hosts encouraging viewers to “Keep looking up!” at the close of each program. The popular astronomy series has continued in distribution from South Florida PBS (originally as WPBT) since the beloved original award-winning series hosted by the late Miami Space Transit Planetarium executive director Jack Horkheimer. Here’s a nice (and brief) documentary about the “Star Hustler/Gazer” star, Jack Horkheimer.Each weekly episode of Star Gazers educates viewers about astronomical events for the upcoming week that can be seen without the aid of a telescope, including key constellations, stars and planets, lunar eclipses and conjunctions, along with historical and scientific information about these events. ![]() Ugh.) At which point, the “Star Hustler” name was dropped and the “Star Gazer” name adopted. You really don’t want to know anything more about that magazine. Apparently when people searched online for information on the PBS show, the top results returned were for Hustler magazine. Mid-1990s search engines were not particularly smart. The show continued with the “Star Hustler” title until it was undone by the Internet. ![]() And I stayed hooked because his enthusiasm was so infectious and the show’s content so interesting. It worked! I was hooked the first time I saw this guy with a comb-over hairstyle strolling along in his windbreaker atop a pathway in space that looked like the rings of Saturn unreeled. From which directive, the Star Hustler persona was born. Finally I stumbled across this Wikipedia article on the show, which cleared things up.Īpparently the show was SERIOUS educational astronomy for the first few years, until a producer told the star, Jack Horkheimer, to make it more accessible to a broader audience than fellow astronomers. In my Google search I kept finding references to “Star Gazer” instead, which confused me because I knew the title was something stranger than that. ![]() I couldn’t remember what the “Star Hustler” was called at first.
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