[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.

A month of episodes can be recorded from a satellite feed that occurs approximately two weeks before the official broadcast dates.

He was approached by Miami's PBS affiliate, WPBT, to do a series of half-hour programs about astronomy, titled Horkheimer's Heavens.

This changed in 1985 after the show's executive producer, Ed Waglin, told Horkheimer that he needed to appeal to a general audience, rather than to astronomers.

[8] In May 1985, the show went national, being broadcast on PBS stations around the United States with the enthusiastic Horkheimer that most people are familiar with.

As a result, the producers renamed the show Star Gazer to avert any confusion, accidental or purposeful.

The show's theme music from its debut in 1976 until October 2011 was Isao Tomita's electronic rendition of Claude Debussy's Arabesque No.

One-minute length versions of these episodes were also produced for public television stations which preferred that shorter format.

[5] During the month of December 2019, South Florida PBS introduced evergreen segments, which were produced in addition to the regular weekly episodes.

Evergreen segments were generally longer than the one-minute length of the regular weekly episodes, although usually shorter than five minutes.

[11] In September 2020, South Florida PBS started streaming virtual events from the Star Gazers website.

It is also available on NASA's Central Operation of Resources for Educators, VOA TV and the Armed Forces Network.

[18] His final broadcast was for the week of August 30 to September 5, 2010, and can be seen at "Jack Horkheimer Star Gazer" 5 Minute Aug. 30 – Sept. 5, 2010 on YouTube.

The show was his 1,708th episode and was titled, Celebrate Labor Day The Cosmic Way With A Giant Triangle Of Stars Overhead.

His first episode was the show's 1,709th titled, "Mercury In The Morning And Jupiter At Night", and can be seen at Jack Horkheimer Star Gazer 5 Minute Sept.6 – Sept. 12, 2010 on YouTube.

After Horkheimer's death, Trigg took over the position as host and recorded episodes for the months of October and November 2010.

James C. Albury, Coordinator of the Kika Silva Pla Planetarium at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida, was the host for the month of April.

[24] The September 2011 episodes ended with the announcement that the program would be appearing in October 2011 with the new name, "Star Gazers" and the new website stargazersonline.org.

Hidalgo moved with her family to the northeastern United States after making her last appearance on the program, which was broadcast in March 2014.

Before these changes were implemented, Albury and Regas continued to co-host the program until leaving the show following the recording of the episodes for November 2019.

[5] Trace Dominguez, an award-winning science communicator and educator, was named the permanent host; and his first appearance on the show was in December 2019.

In 1994, Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler won the Astronomical League's Outstanding Achievement Award.