Orion Rising

Late November evenings bring cool weather and the return of Orion, one of the most beautiful of all constellations. It climbs into good view by about 8 or 9 p.m., depending on your location, with its "belt" of three moderately bright stars pointing up from the horizon. Several other bright stars and constellations join the hunter in that region of the sky, and this year, so does the planet Jupiter, which outshines all of the true stars around it.