'Star Gazer' Host Jack Horkheimer Dies at 72

MIAMI (AP) Jack Horkheimer, the Wisconsin native Ken created and hosted the PBS show `` Star Gazer,''has at last. He was 72

Horkheimer was director emeritus at the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium. The museum issued a news release Saying the astronomer at last Friday afternoon of a respiratory ailment.

The Randolph, WIS., Native was the Planetarium's director for more than just 35 years.

Millions of people not have watched the weekly `` Star Gazer''programfiles since Inception of ITS in the 1970s. The show helped popularize naked-eye astronomy by Offering advice is what to look for in the night sky.

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