Orion

Orion is prominent in the southern sky mid-evening at the moment. It's my favourite of the constellations. There's a lot to be said about the individual stars but today I've been drawn to an aid to finding other stars in the sky. I've come across the Summer Triangle but not the Winter Triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Triangle. Even better, there is also a Winter Hexagon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hexagon. These also introduced a new word: asterism. It's like constellation, as in it is a pattern humans see in the stars, but is a more modern version that goes across the ancient constellation boundaries. The problem with Orion for me is that it is in the south and therefore in the direction of the bright lights of Wigton...