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Winter Hexagon
Name: Doug
Status: Other
Age: N/A
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: Prior to 1993
Question:
What is a winter hexagon? My physics teacher said it was some
kind of constellation that occurs in the winter time, but he was not very
specific.
Replies:
I had heard of the Summer Triangle but never of the Winter
Hexagon. But sure enough, it exists. There is a brief article about it (more
particularly, about planetary nebulae within its confines) in the March 1988
issue of Astronomy magazine. (An astronomy book I looked at referred to a
"great loop" of stars.) The Hexagon, says the article, is formed by the
brightest stars of Canis Major, Orion, Taurus, Auriga, Gemini, and Canis
Minor. Thus, the stars are Sirius, Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, and
Procyon.
Ronald Winther
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