Orion

As temperatures drop and days grow shorter, the winter constellations rise higher and higher in the sky each night. And the most famous of them all, the hunter Orion, is an unmistakable herald of the cold season. Seeing him rise over the eastern horizon is like reuniting with an old dependable friend that has traveled afar and has only just returned.  

Betelgeuse, a red supergiant of magnitude 0.58, glows brightly in Orion's shoulder. 

Taurus the bull rises near Orion, with the red giant Aldebaran glowing brightly at a magnitude of 0.98.