Shine like a Star

     Have you ever just taken the time to turn your gaze up to the heavens at night fall and appreciate the wonderful and all glorious shining stars that men of old took the time to align and connect them into pictures and folklore?
     It's such a wonderful experience to just stare at the little glowing orbs of light that are millions of miles away but yet make a pin point dot in the sky right outside my window.
     I always wanted a window seat and a balcony in which I could simply sit and look out my window and fall asleep, or open my window doors and sit cross-legged in amazement of the stars.

     My favorite constellation is Orion, the hunter- as I like to call him, the archer. He was one of the first constellations I ever learned and is still very easy for me to point out in the night sky:

 

"Orion's seven brightest stars form a distinctive hourglass-shaped asterism, or pattern, in the night sky. Four stars—Rigel, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and Saiph—form a large roughly rectangular shape, in the centre of which lie the three stars of Orion's Belt—Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. Descending from the 'belt' is a smaller line of three stars (the middle of which is in fact not a star but the Orion Nebula), known as the hunter's 'sword'.
Many of the stars are luminous hot blue supergiants, with the stars of the belt and sword forming the Orion OB1 Association. Standing out by its red hue, Betelgeuse may nevertheless be a runaway member of the same group."
-Wikipedia
If you're interested in learning more about Orion, visit the link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)

There's still so much more to Orion then the paragraph I copied, you can go to Wikipedia and learn about the deep space nebula's connected to Orion's constellation.
 Everything about the myths and folklore just makes me feel so close to something a lot of people have missed.

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-The Girl Wearing That Yellow Sundress