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The Winter Hexagon
Exposure Data
- Image Field of View: 65° x 82°
- Camera Field of View: 63.5° x 45°
- Lens: Canon 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Zoom kit lens
- Focal Length: 20 mm
- Focal Ratio: f/4
- Camera: Modified Canon Digital Rebel XS (1000D)
- ISO: 1600
- Exposure: 13 frame mosaic: each frame 60 seconds
- Filter: Fog
- SQM: 20.80
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The Winter Hexagon is comprised of the stars Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, and Pollux. These are six of the brightest stars in the night sky. Hold your mouse cursor over the image to see constellation and star identifications.
These bright first magnitude stars and their distinctive constellations are one of the most beautiful sights in the heavens.
The Winter Hexagon is a very large asterism that rises at the start of dawn in September. By the start of winter on December 21, it rises in the east at 9 p.m. and is visible all night.
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The Winter Hexagon
- Object Type: Asterism
- Size: 50° x 50°
- Constellation: CMa, CMi, Gem, Aur, Tau, Ori
- Image Field Centered At:
- RA: 06h 12m 43s
- Dec: +14° 12' 08"
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