[at-l] the first of hopefully a series

[David Addleton]

one of my favorite constellations . . .
Orion . . .
A winter constellation of stars for winter hikers . . .
One of my earliest memories (from before growing up old enough to go to
school) is sleeping on the roof in Ratodero (go look it up  on google!). My
Dad had a map from a National Geographic magazine of the northern night sky,
and I still remember it . . . he'd point out the constellations as we fell
asleep, after the two hours of electricity from the diesel generator in the
village was turned off . . . there was no electricity for hundreds of miles
around . . . we had a dome of the REAL night sky without light pollution (I
remember seeing Sputnik!) . . . we slept atop the highest house in the
village; with the Moon gone, the night sky can cast a shadow where there's
no light pollution . . . have you ever gone hiking without a Moon, under a
clear sky?
He said, "Look! There's Orion!"
I freaked out.
I THOUGHT he said: "Look! There's a lion!"
I was supposed be going to sleep, but I was a wee kid, and I thought he'd
seen a lion!
http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/JK4IQ3tC
enjoy
For LiteShoe:  the Horse Head Nebula is in there somewhere, but I didn't
include it in the photoshow, favoring instead the vast expanse of light
years . . . I'm more interested in what I can see with the naked eye and
binocs and cheap cameras . . .  but the Horse Head Nebula is there in the
Orion nebula and you can find it if you look hard enough . . .