|If you can find Orion, you might be able to find the Winter
Hexagon. The Winter Hexagon involves some of the brightest stars
visible, together forming a large and easily found pattern in
the winter sky of Earth's northern hemisphere. The stars
involved can usually be identified even in the bright night
skies of a big city, although here they appear over darker
Stagecoach, Colorado, USA.. The six stars that compose the
Winter Hexagon are Aldebaren, Capella, Castor (and Pollux),
Procyon, Rigel, and Sirius. Here, the band of our Milky Way
Galaxy runs through the center of the Winter Hexagon, while the
Pleiades open star cluster is visible just above. The Winter
Hexagon asterism engulfs several constellations including much
of the iconic steppingstone Orion. Credit & Copyright: Jimmy
Westlake (Colorado Mountain College)