With the long nights of winter comes the chance to see some lovely objects in the sky. The Pleiades cluster or the
Seven Sisters in the Taurus the bull is due south at 10pm through a small telescope this small group of seven stars
turns in to hundreds; with the V shape of the Hyades the head of the bull to the east of them.
Between the pole star and the great hunter Orion is the brilliant start of Capella. Later in the night around midnight
comes the first constellation of the spring Leo the lion.
The hazy trail of the Milky Way arches overhead, passing through the constellations of Cassiopeia and Perseus.
The Summer Triangle has disappeared towards the west, but the large square that makes the body of the winged horse
Pegasus is still high in the south-west. Due south is the very dull area of the sky that houses the constellations of
Pisces, Cetus and Eridanus with no bright stars.
The red eye of Taurus the Bull is peeping over the eastern horizon with the patterns of
Gemini and Orion signalling the approach of winter.