objects or events you can see in the sky.

The three stars that form Orion's Belt are, from east to west, magnitude 1.7 Alnitak, magnitude 1.7 Alnilam, and magnitude 2.3 Mintaka. That first star, Alnitak, is a hot, blue-white O-type star ...

A nice northern star group This week’s second object is ... You’ll find the Horsehead Nebula 0.5° south of magnitude 1.7 Alnitak (Zeta [ζ] Orionis). In a previous podcast, I talked about ...

Its most famous signpost are the three stars of Orions Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka ... The radiant point is close to the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which will be above Orion ...