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cally reaching the height of his powers. As night passes - with Earth turning eastward under the stars - Orion has his inevitable "fall," shifting lower into the southwestern sky by late evening. Orion slowly heads westward throughout the evening hours and plunges beneath your western horizon in the wee hours after midnight.
• By the way, Orion has another very bright star, called Rigel. As seen from northerly latitudes, blue-white Rigel sits below Orion's Belt, while ruddy Betelgeuse stands above it.
• Blue-white Rigel shines at the foot of Orion
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