Winter Hexagon

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title: Winter Hexagon
text: The Winter Hexagon or Winter Circle/Oval is an asterism appearing to be in the form of a hexagon with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius. It is mostly upon the Northern Hemisphere's celestial sphere. On most locations on Earth, this asterism is visible in the evening sky at the equator from approximately December to June, and in the morning sky from July to the end of November, while in the evenings on the northern hemisphere it is less months visible between Dece
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description: Evening sky asterism with vertices at Rigel, Aldebaran, Capella, Pollux, Procyon, and Sirius
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hexagon
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date modified: 2023-06-13T11:13:58Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Winter_Hexagon_and_Great_Southern_Triangle_%28Stellarium%29.png","width":1592,"height":1175}
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