| Star Gazers | |
|---|---|
 Title screen for Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler, showing the starhustler.com URL before the name change in 1997 | |
| Also known as | Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler (1976–1997), Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer (1997–2011) |
| Starring | Jack Foley Horkheimer (Host, 1976–2010), Chris Trigg (Guest host 2010), Ed Romano (Guest host 2011), Dean Regas (Co-host 2010–2019), James C. Albury (Co-host 2011–2019), Marlene Hidalgo (co-host 2011-2014), Trace Dominguez (Host 2019-present) |
| Opening theme | "Arabesque No. 1" by Claude Debussy, performed by Isao Tomita (1976–2011) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 47 |
| No. of episodes | 2,350+ |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Miami, Florida |
| Camera setup | Green Screen |
| Running time | 5:00 or 1:00 (per episode), 52 episodes yearly |
| Original release | |
| Network | WPBT; syndicated to PBS stations |
| Release | November 6, 1976 – present |
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Star Gazers (formerly known as Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler and later Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer) is a short astronomy show on American public television previously hosted by Jack Horkheimer, executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium.[1][2] 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.[3][4] In 2019, Dean Regas and James Albury stepped down from the program and were replaced by Trace Dominguez.[5][6][7] 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.
The program is available free to all Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television stations, educational institutions and astronomy clubs. A month of episodes can be recorded from a satellite feed that occurs approximately two weeks before the official broadcast dates.
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