Orion the Hunter Constellation
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Orion is one of the most easily recognizable constellations in the winter sky. If you can learn how to find this constellation, you can easily navigate your way to all the other star patterns in the winter sky.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Legend and mythology of Orion
4:21 - Pattern of Orion
8:09 - Orion as a guide to other constellations (see downloadable worksheet)
12:03 - Winter Triangle
13:13 - Practice finding the star pattern of Orion
22:40 - Bright Stars of Orion
26:04 - Belt Stars
28:15 - Celestial Objects of Orion
29:08 - Great Orion Nebula AKA M42 and M43
30:32 - Horsehead Nebula AKA IC 434
32:17 - Orion Overview
33:33 - Photo Attributes
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Nice intro. Almost got up and started dancing
Orion and i have deep connection😄. Every winter since i was a kid, orion use to be right on top of our house when i finish dinner, he stays throughout winter, then when winter ends, i say 'We'll see next year, goodbye' then he comeback every year until now, it's been 7 years like he's part of my journey
Thank you for this video! I've often looked up in winter and found orion, but never understood or looked into the different stars and the constellations around it. You have really managed to fill the sky with amazement for me and my family. Thanks.
Tell me about light pollution and position in general. I'm an old man and have found that many stars now are mostly lost to visual view. In fact, I stopped using the pole star and now use the plough to find north. Over the years (without trying to learn) when ever I looked up at the positions of the stars I would look at my watch to see the time and check my compass; after a couple of years I learnt the positions of the stars at any time in relation to north, south, east and west. Having said all that, I were to totally lost when I first spent time in the southern hemisphere. P.S: this is the first time your channel has come up in my feed - it's a nice little Christmas present.
I love this I have a perfect view of Orion from my window most nights
You are amazing. it’s sad to see a well made educational videos getting small amount of views...
Thank you for your comment. When I started teaching astronomy to my high school students, I couldn't find the kind of info I was looking to teach them with how to find the patterns and what to look for inside the boundaries. So I just started making my own. :)
Went through hurricane Michael and while it was definitely something I wouldn’t wish on anyone one positive of it was there was no light pollution for several weeks and we slept outside on our porch at night and could see all the beautiful constellations and identify them.
Love your videos. I learned the constellations as a kid from star charts. At 65 I still go out every clear night. It's a shame so many people have no clue of the constellations and planets.
These videos are wonderful ! They've helped me, for the first time, to progressively discover so much about what we see in the night skies above us, helping me to understand the stories around the constellations above us & to appreciate what the ancients, too, will have seen ... Brilliantly done ! Thank you !!!
Great video, very informative. I like hearing your voice and the way you explain in detail. Keep up the great work. ☺️😊👍🏾
Neat, thank you for posting. I found Orion close to our S.W. horizon in Quebec CANADA, this is April 24 2023 at around 17:00..
Orion was the first constellation I learnt from my uncle. He told me to look for the the 3-dot belt. I look up to the sky often since.
Me also. I was in the Marines and we were guarding the USS Mount Vernon going from San Diego to Alaska and we ported in Seattle and one night on post me and my buddy were looking at the stars and he pointed out Orion. First constellation I learned to recognize, I was about 21 years old
Even though Betelgeuse is the Alpha star in Orion is the brightest currently and for several hundred years is Rigel. Perhaps Betelgeuse was brighter back when its magnitude was first calculated. It is a variable star. It experienced a dimming just recently in 2019 but now has brightened to near its normal level.
I don't think it's a matter of it being classed as a variable star as there are numerous occasions where they have mixed up the alpha and beta stars of constellations, and sometimes even the gamma star.
Thank you. I go for long walks in the country at night. It's really nice to know what I'm looking at. Much appreciated.
dustdeviltc88 I’m glad you are able to know what you see. This is definitely one of my favorite constellations.
So good. Love ❤️ the detail with the nebula.
I just recently discovered this channel and learned the basics! Now I’m on the path to learn more with you guys. Please keep at it! These are very helpful videos. #newsubscriber
Nice video, love ur channel, i live in Bosnia and Heruegovina and spring is almodt here, so right now is 19:00 and orion i shining amazingly even if dark isnt there yet ! Keep up with the good content
Awesome video, you are a great teacher! I'll watch this one many times.
Such a knowledgeable and well represented video
Thanks so much for superb teaching. I will listen to this many times.
Very good explanation in detail, congratulations.!!!
Thank you so much. I learned a lot from this video.
Excellent, very helpful, and thank you!
Very nice presentation.
I really interested in your video and I want to say thank you. And I need to know more about it.
Wow, stumbled to a great course. ❤️❤️❤️
Welcome aboard!
love your videos. will be glad to help translate arabic names and prononciation .
I welcome your help. Please email me for more details.
Learn the Sky sure..to what adress should I send an email to?
@@MohammedPersonne janine@learnthesky.com
Thank you so much. My son and I are like love your version how you tell it with your voice is so common it's moving we always watch you at night time anyway it's a great bedtime story you get your education and then you put the bedtime story on the end of it and I learned a lot in these last 2 years I do believe and how all of the stars in constellations like intertwine with each other and it helps you out a lot easier when you can recognize clusters or say Ursa Major in Orion you can easily spot them to and those two are the guide to everything else around you and I do believe it was you it said Ursa Major pretty much connects to all the major constellations because you help me find a Virgo constellation even though it's still faint but I'm done rambling I just wanted to share my story. We love stargazing but we got to get us a bigger and better telescope or 114 is not cutting it anymore lol. We 💕u . 🖖🏼 And each one teach one
Thank you for your excellent lesson and I would like to know why I see differently
thank you so much for this content
Thank you this really helped me.😊
@10:40 by drawing all the thru lines.. it traces out Orion. How cool!
Thank you for your fantastic content Janine. I’ve been following your videos for a long time because I love your teaching style and passion, especially when you give examples to practice finding stars. By the way at 17:30 you’ve incorrectly labelled something. It’s the “false cross”, not the southern cross. The southern cross is further left and not seen in the photo. The false cross is an asterism in Carina and Vela. Its bottom star is red.
Thank you for your message. This is one of my very first videos. I'm not surprised I made a mistake in those early years. It also reminds me of why I'm so hesitant to do videos on the southern constellations. I need to see them and know them before I start teaching about them.
@@learnthesky All good I bet all northern hemisphere people get that wrong, it is called the false cross after all! Janine you’ve taught me so much about learning the sky and how to identify stars and planets. I’ve watched all your videos and checked out your resources on your website. I really appreciate all your work and amazing content. I even listen to your KZhead audio in the car cos it really helps my learning
Thann you so much for the help.
Fascinating
The music in the intro was lit 😁😂
Thanks again... Nice 1 n GOD BLESS 👍🏼👊🏼
Hello, really nice video! What you said about Size, color temperature and size of stars (Rigel Vs Sun comparison) it´s only true if we are talking about de "Main Sequence Stars". A counterexample is Betelgeuse a red SuperGiant Star, M Spectral type, pretty massive but with low density, very bright and also very low temperatures.
Thanks for the video, i like your classes very much. Is very easy to learn with you and your ilustrations and drawings between the sky. I live in the southern hemisphere but i can see A part of the winter hexagon. I can see Orion, Sirius and Gemini. I live in a five storys building and i always go to the playground by the midnight to see the stars in no cloud days. I clouldn't see Taurus still because of the other buildings surrounding mine but your classes have already helped me very much. Orion is like a compass . This particular video was very important to se e because you showed a picture of a large sky with Orion, Sirius and the Crux in the same image, and it is awesome because i can see the Crux from here.. There is another star in the same image that is Canopus it's close to the Crux although i couldn't find yet, but now that i saw this picture i will try to see it later someday . Another goal that i settled to the future is to see the Milky way but i know its very difficult because of the light polution. I will try to make a trip to somewhere far from the city to get some dark place . Big hugs teacher.
Hello. Thank you for your message. I appreciate that you shared something I cannot see. I am unfamiliar with the stars of the southern hemisphere since I live in the northern half of the globe. I can see the Southern Cross, and that's about it. My hope in the future is to see the small galaxies only seen in the southern hemisphere. I wish you luck finding a dark sky, as I know they are precious and hard to find at times.
so, i am gonna share more one thing: i saw the Orion's Nebula a few days ago. I have a binocular that i never used to astronomy back in the days but it was lost in my bedroom when i wrote this first comment and i found it recently and pointed it to Orion and i could see between two tiny little stars on Orion's sword something like a white shadow like a very small cloud and i am almost sure its Orion's nebula because i am sure it's not a star and seeing your classes i learned it's here that this nebula it's located. It's amazing because since i got intersted in astronomy and could learn more about the Universe it's the first time i see something with my own eyes that is not a star . Now i will wait for some months for the rotation of the constellations around the north pole because i can't see those that are close to Pollaris, because the latitude here in Rio is 22,97 degrees south, but if i can see Orion so maybe i can see other constellations that are far from the axis of this rotation, that is, that makes a path with this same radius as Orion does with pollaris. Anyway, if i will be able to see something i will post here my experience. Big hugs dear teacher! I am waiting for new videos because i like your classes very much!
@@learntheskyI live in the Southern Hemisphere (in fact the most southern part of it) and on an interesting note, we see Orion "upside down"!!
@@leandromantovani4282 How do you do now?
Nice videos with a nice voice that you can follow for hours. Btw, you can contact me for some original music I can make for your videos if you want. Great knowledge!
Wow! Thank you! I’m always on the lookout for original music. My contact details are on my channel page. Thank you for your support.
I think Orion, the Big Dipper, Scorpio and Crux are the sharpest constellations in the sky. They're so damn easy to spot out.
Thank you
very good , i was looking for this from a year or so, informative , pl do all 12 zodiac constellations
Hi there. I am working on videos or all the zodiacal constellations. Thanks for your requests!
So very interesting !!! ... how about the Celestial Equator and Orion's position relative to it ??? ...
I call Orion's dagger or sword Orion's compass because it points up to the North and down to the South.
He rises from sleep, stands up to point south, then goes back to sleep ↘️⬇️↙️
Is Orion and most of the major constellations in the Milky Way or elsewhere? You have a great channel!
Great question. All the stars we see in the sky are in the Milky Way Galaxy. The ones that we see are often closer to us and/or brighter. There is a website I like to use that provides great visuals for the closest stars. Check it out: stars.chromeexperiments.com/
I need star gazing videos for the Southern Hemisphere, cause Wow... The differences in the orientation between the two hemispheres is huge. Great video though, thank you
I am little nervous to do videos about constellations in the Southern Hemisphere because I’ve only seen them from the northern hemisphere. And since I’m in the north, I’m not familiar with how to find the southern constellations. The exception is the Southern Cross, which I can see from Hawai’i. A huge goal of mine is to make it down south so I can learn more of the sky from that perspective.
Bravo
Job 38.👽 Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades (7 Sisters), or loosen the belts of Orion? Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or can you guide Arcturus with his cubs?
good!
12:37 It's the Guess symbol!!
The music in the intro was good! What’s it called? 🤔
21:11 Interesting
Thanks a lot!!!! I just did not understand why is the reason for the name M42 and M43. Please explain it.
M42 and M43 are short for Messier. Charles Messier was a French astronomer in the late 1700's that cataloged a lot of celestial objects, like star clusters and galaxies. He cataloged 110 objects, and those objects are named after him. So M42 means Messier 42. Both M42 and M43 are part of the Orion Nebula Complex. This is an example of how there are multiple naming systems for objects in the sky. I hope this helps.
It really helped!!! thank you so much. I love your vedeos.
The purple ring is perseus. Cancer is faint and is to the left of the text "Canis Minor.
Yes. I’ve acknowledged that in the comments. This is an old video. I have an updated video on Orion.
The iss the internasniol space stishon is in the the orion constellation.
Question looking at Orion is that also the same as the big bear?
Those two are the most famous constellations in the sky. Orion would be directly overhead if you lived at the equator. The Big Bear or Usra Major is much further north. I made the same mistake many years ago.
Useful tips for a star mapping grid so as not to feel lost when looking up at God's grand creation so ever high above.
I think you forgot one asterism in that video -- Venus's Mirror in Orion ( belt and M42, M43)!
I have not heard it called Venus's Mirror before...very interesting!
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember learning that Betelgeuse is a variable star. I’m looking at it now and it appears significantly dimmer than Rigel so it can’t be the case that Betelgeuse is always Orion’s Alpha star. The media has been all a buzz with the strange activity exhibited by the famous red giant these past few months so perhaps its current “Beta” status is a new phenomenon.
You are correct. I definitely notice the reduction in magnitude since it has been reported. It is classified as a variable star, so it makes sense that this could happen. But yes, Rigel now seems to be the alpha star. There are many examples of some alpha stars not being the brightest star (Gemini, Pisces). When the magnitude system was created, it was based upon naked eye observations. But now with more advanced technology, we are getting more accurate readings of magnitude. It will be interesting to see if something happens with Betelgeuse. Since it is a supergiant star, it could go supernova. Thank you for your comment. 😁
MAN IM THE BETA BETELGEUSE IS ALPHA IT HIS ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY
@@learnthesky im not alpha im beta
Me, looking for a bird inside my city apartment while watching this.
Orion is holding a wolf or fox. The star group here is known as Lupus mean fox.
American Silver Star in Orion!!!!
Nice video but surely the ancient Egyptians were the first to recognize this constellation if not earlier hunter gatherers.... 👍
I totally agree. I did do an updated version of this video: kzhead.info/sun/eZyqaJaulp-XnX0/bejne.html It definitely goes back to hunter-gatherer days. The oldest known artifact of the constellations is speculated to be a carving Orion. It is between 35,000 to 38,000 years old. It is incredible that they found this artifact.
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Its on the money
5:28 Oh so that's his sword under his belt...
Are you really officialy an astronomy teacher ?
I just founded Orion
I always thought that Orion as "Butterfly" I prefer name it: "Butterfly stars" at 3~4am^
No love for Saiph?
Beetle juice
Question... What role did the ancient Africans have in discovering and teaching this science to the greeks? Ausar...?
This is a great question, and one that I am still trying to find the answer to (as well as other historians and scientists). The answer to your question could probably fill many pages. From the small amount of research I have been doing, there definitely seem to be links between Egyptian and Greek Mythology. The story of Cassiopeia and Cepheus was as story that most likely originated in Africa, but often the Greeks get the credit. I am primarily a scientist, so cannot make many claims about ancient history. I am hoping to discover more about how African cultures viewed the stars and their mythologies. With my education however, I have had very little exposure to this type of information.
It Shows The 3Main Stars Of Orion are all in a row star-matching the 3Great Pyramids Of Giza..? Which was possibly built over 10,500 years ago in very old Ancient-Egypt long before christ...
I saw that 2x a row no way and i just search it
she need to learn more betelgeuse is 642.5 light years and is the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion Rigel
44 millionlight years away light speed is inacurate right now
Maybe try showing the actual stars....enlarge your screen
I really wish to witness supernova
me too!
I think that Orion represents KOREAN FLAG. WHEN supernova explode, the way to HEAVEN will open.
Man im his right leg
Betelgeuse (Bettle Guys) doesn't sound like Arabic nor Rigel
that did not see pices
It looks like you made the classic mistake of thinking the False Cross is the Crux.
Actually she got it right. The False Cross is to the right of Crux. Crux is upright and the False Cross lies on its side.
@@davemmar nope. Crux is not visible. Its off the screen to the left.
I thought that science says the universe is 14.5 billion years old. Trillions much more accurate🔱🇺🇸🏆🏁🍻😎
your pc got stuck, or you cat attacked your keyboard...sort it out..
Its pronounced beetle-juice
Her pronunciation is the official pronunciation adopted by The international Astronomical Union, the official agency tasked with names and definitions of celestial objects. However, it is common practice to adopt official pronunciations based on common usage, and beetle-juice is by far the most common pronunciation for this star. So the jury is not in yet.
Ancient Africans Osiris _Asr
You can't be sirius.
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Betelgeuse, 310 light years away... Come on... *ITS OVER DOUBLE THAT!!!* 642 light years away.. Also, from an Aussie, not everyone lives in the northern hemisphere! Informative video, but, come on. You're lacking things.. I'm just saying.. *No hard feelings..* 🙂
Aussies actually see a different orientation of Orion. Because it is on the celestial equator, Betelgeuse is at the bottom and Rigel is at the top as viewed from down under. To view Orion from one hemisphere and then the other is amazing.
You cannot see it good because of the writing.
Thank you so much. I learned a lot from this video.