R.I.P. Jack Horkheimer ~ Sayonara, Star Gazer...

Alas, Jack Horkheimer has passed on. As Stephen Miller in the WSJournal salutes...

"For millions who watched his weekly TV show, Jack Horkheimer was the Star Gazer, a slightly cracked character who delineated the night sky with humor and cheesy graphics. Mr. Horkheimer, who died Friday at 72, was as celestial guide at Miami's Space Transit Planetarium since the 1960s, and in 1976 started his weekly five-minute PBS show, billed as the only national program devoted to naked-eye astronomy. "Jack was the consummate pitchman for the stars," said Dave Weinrich, president-elect of the International Planetarium Society. The show's seeming low-tech approach and chirpy intro music by Isao Tomita set the stage for a performer so enthusiastic about the heavens that Mr. Horkheimer originally billed himself as "The Star Hustler."

R.I.P. stellar showman! "Keep looking up!"