constellation

Orion

In the months of February and March around 8 p.m. in
the night this constellation which forms a pattern resembling a
hunter will be seen in the sky . It has seven very bright stars. The two stars on his shoulders and the two stars on his knees appear as four corners of a square. The belt of the hunter is made up of three bright stars. The head is indicated by three stars which are not very bright. The case of the sword hanging from the belt contains three small stars. Now, you can build up an imaginary picture of the hunter. Since the head of orion is directed to the north direction, this constellation helps
to identify the North. The betelgeuse star indicating the right shoulder be named as a (alpha) orionis. This is a giant red star. The star indicating the left leg is b (beta) orionis or Rigel is a blue giant star. These two stars are among the brightest twenty stars in the sky.
About Orion...According to Greek mythiology orion is an expert warrior and a hunter. He was the son of god Neptune, who was the God of the oceans. The other Gods who noted his talents were jealous and killed him using a poisonous scorpion. But Goddess Diana placed him among the stars in the sky and made him immortal. At the sametime she placed the scorpion on the opposite side of the sky so that it cannot get closed to orion. Even today, when orion sets in the western sky, scorpion rises up in the eastern sky.