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StarGazer
Each week most PBS stations air Star
Gazer with Jack Horkheimer, the world's first and only weekly TV series
on naked-eye astronomy. The images on this page illustrate the show for
the week of Monday,
February 12, 2001.
Chilling Geometry : The Great Winter Triangle Inside The Great Winter Hexagon
The most famous winter constellation, Orion the Hunter, is due south just after 8 pm in February. It is surrounded by many bright stars and the planets Jupiter and Saturn.
Procyon, Sirius and Betelgeuse form the Winter Triangle. Sirius is the brightest star in our sky, except for the sun, of course!
The six bright star of the Winter Hexagon (Sirius, Procyon, Pollux, Capella, Aldebaran and Rigel) completely enclose the body of Orion.
