![]() Tony Lima of the Miami Science Museum, home to the planetarium, says the staff is still trying to make sense of Horkheimer's passing, adding, "We at the Museum all feel this loss quite a bit." At least one month of shows will be hosted by Chris Trigg, another staffer at the Miami facility. It's not yet clear how or if his show will continue. As always, he begins with a chortling "Greetings, greetings, fellow stargazers and ends with his signature phrase "Keep looking up!"īeyond the enthusiasm he projected over the air waves, Horkheimer had encouraged kids to get involved in astronomy, most notably through annual $1,000 awards given to aspiring young amateur astronomers through the Astronomical League. Since Horkheimer and longtime planetarium colleague Bill Dishong produced several episodes in advance, the last one to feature Horkheimer - his 1,708th - will air the first week of September and feature the Summer Triangle. You can download any of the past year's episodes as well. and to other outlets like the Armed Forces Network. The shows are distributed free, via satellite to more than 200 stations across the U.S. Along the way his nom de television morphed from "Star Hustler" to "Star Gazer," to sidestep aggressive web-browsing filters. The show started airing locally on WPBT in Miami, then went national in 1985. But he'll be remembered most for his exuberant and often zany television persona, who helped us all appreciate the breadth and depth of eyeball-only astronomy. ![]() Horkheimer had been a fixture at the Miami Planetarium for more than 45 years, where he began as a volunteer and served as its executive director since 1973. Regas’s outreach programs have increased that number to 21,000.Always enthusiastic about viewing the heavens, Jack Horkheimer is seen here in a frame from one of the final episodes of his long-running "Star Gazer" television series. → In 1999, the observatory worked with about 1,500 people. → The Cincinnati Observatory has two antique telescopes-one of which is 168 years old, the oldest working telescope in the country. Now he focuses on observational astronomy, or what you (and the ancients) could see with the naked eye. He gives local astronomy highlights for the week in the 4 a.m. → Fox 19 News is getting in on the game-the station has created the Star Gazing Report with Dean Regas. It says, This is what’s out there right now. It’s the only show that almost dares you to go outside. And hopefully, I’m going to be the cooler one. If you liked the geekiness of Star Gazer, it’s going to be doubled. I had a few that I was tossing around…I said, ‘Keep looking up and say Hi to the stars tonight.’ And they actually let that run. I even wanted to have a different catch phrase at the end because I thought it was kind of sacrilegious to say his thing. I found myself starting to imitate him, and I thought, No, this isn’t right. I have no idea what the new format will look like-but I think there are hover boards involved. Even though it’s so cheesy, it’s part of the thing. That was all the technology they had: flip him around, throw him around places. ![]() ![]() Thinking back on the show, part of me would think, Oh man, that’s cheeseball. So I can’t watch my first couple of shows-I just looked so uncomfortable. It’s kind of surreal that I’m in the same position Jack Horkheimer was for all those years. You know where everything is going to be. My new boss said, ‘You’re going to be giving shows, and your first show is next week.’ So I had to learn quickly because the first group was Girl Scouts, and they’d kill you.Īstronomy got me with its certainty. I worked at Burnet Woods, and they had a planetarium there. “I’ve never taken an astronomy course in my life. ![]()
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