the constellation ORION is in the wrong place!

the other night i looked up and saw a constellation i thought was weird, as in i never noticed it before.

I think it started around 5 months ago, I used to watch the Sun rise every morning ( I sun gaze) or I did till it started coming up to far south that I cant see it for the trees now.


You do realise that the position of the sunrise changes through out the year don't you?

I think a few astronomers might have noticed and it's not something you can keep a secret.

I was just about to log on and post this exact same thing!
Here goes --

The other night when everyone was talking about their compasses being all wonky, I went out to look at the stars. I stood in my driveway and peered up at Orion. It was between 10:30 and 10:45 pm. My driveway was poured as four separate slabs so I made sure to stand in the upper left quadrant, right next to the 'axis'. Orion was STRAIGHT ABOVE me -- I had to lean my head all the way back to look at it.

Tonight I went out to look at Orion again as I have several nights over the past few weeks. Tonight I looked up and it is about 25 or 30 degrees 'closer' to the horizon, same direction, but not as high up. I didn't have to 'crane' my neck in otherwords.

I love looking at the stars but I am not an expert - not even close. Two nights ago it was still straight up.

Is this change normal?

Many months later... still in the right place.

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