stars have always attracted mankind attracts beauty, mystery and enigma.In the religions of different peoples they attached particular importance, considering that their location can affect the fate of the human heroes of myths and legends have also found refuge in the starry sky.One of the most famous constellations in the night sky Orion is considered - the most beautiful constellation, which is located south of the Equator, in the southern part of the sky.The ancient Egyptians gave him a name - the "king star", and considered the constellation of the house of the god Osiris.It is easily recognizable by an asterism.Orion's Belt - three bright stars that are like being on the same line, clothes adorn the giant hunter.
Legend, which is reflected in the night sky, contradictory.According to one version of a brave hunter, son of Poseidon, Orion pursued sisters of the Pleiades.To stop him, the goddess Artemis had sent the Scorpion, which caused a fatal bite to the hunter.After the death of Orion was placed in the sky by his father Poseidon.In another version of the Orion pursues with his big dog hunting the hare, and the episode was captured in the picture stars.Such is the legend describing the belt of Orion, the confirmation of which can be seen in the outlines of the constellations.
It is one of the most prominent in the night sky, due to the fact that combines a lot of bright stars.Five of them belong to the second magnitude star, four - third magnitude, and two - the first (this blue-white Rigel and Betelgeuse red).And Rigel and Betelgeuse - supergiants.Rigel diameter exceeds our sun in thirty-three times.He is from us at a distance greater than five hundred light-years, and the light of the stars that we see now, it was rejected during the time when Columbus discovered America.
Another bright star, a member of Orion's belt - Betelgeuse, whose name from the ancient Arabic means "giant shoulder."This star in diameter, four times the sun.Close to Rigel is a star, which seems murky and blurred.Around it can be seen through a telescope hazy blur.This is the Orion Nebula, which is a cloud of glowing gas.Because it could happen ten thousand stars such as our sun.The nebula is located at a distance of one thousand three hundred and light years.There is in the constellation of Orion Nebula and another.It is called the "Horsehead" because the gas-dust cloud in outline like a horse's head.
Knowingly constellation of Orion's belt is the most beautiful star in the sky.When Orion rises above the horizon, one can observe the seven bright stars that form a hexagon.It Pollux, Capella, Sirius, Procyon, Aldebaran and Rigel.In the middle stands a bright constellation of Betelgeuse.The ancients saw the outlines of stars of Orion the hunter armed with a club.Included in Orion's belt of three bright stars are Arabic names.It Alnilam - "pearl belt," Mintaka - "belt" and Alnitak - "Sash".Orion is still remarkable that from him from below and to the right is an area in which there is no bright stars, and it is the opposite of the bright Orion's belt.Here are the constellations, whose names are associated with water: Keith, Pisces, Aquarius, and the river Eridanus.
best time, when the sky is particularly clearly seen Orion's belt are the winter months - December and January.Watch the constellation can be the whole territory of Russia.
