On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns to find in the sky. Its identifying feature is a row of three stars which make up the belt of the legendary hunter, Orion. Above the ...

The Orion constellation. The main stars of this constellation are connected by straight blue lines and some of them are labelled by their name. The Orion Nebula (M 42) is identified by the red square.

The winter sky has some brightly lit star patterns visible this month ... Canis Minor, and Orion, respectively. And the asterism is part of an even larger asterism known as the the Winter Circle ...