Kathy,I think we met at the last star party on Timpanogos. How close you are to the mountain of course makes a huge difference in your horizon. "Winter hexagon" is a new asterism for me. Looking at my charts I am guessing it is the same as I have marked as "Winter Circle" or "Winter Octagon". I must admit it looks more naturally as a hexagon as the two extra stars included on my chart between Capella and Pollux are all mostly in a straight line. Asterisms are always very useful to me, often more so than constellations. Generally in light polluted skies I often cannot find enough stars to see constellation shapes well and in dark skies the main stars get drowned in the background field stars. Asterisms are often patterns that "pop" a bit more under any sky condition. But I think I have never used the winter circle before because those constellations, Orion, Gemini, Taurus, as well as the bright star Sirius are some of the easiest for me to find. Next time though I will have to see if I can spot the hexagon pattern of bright stars. On Friday, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Kathy <grammykt@gmail.com>, wrote: I was out with binoculars in the foothills of Mt. Timpanogos early this morning. Fascinated with The Eyes peering at me. Mars and Regulus looked spooky. Venus was splendid! Found the Winter Hexagon and then looked at Orion Nebulae. My favorite is always the Pleiades. Looked at several clusters. I was sorry I hadn't set up my scope. The eastern skies were so clear. Morning glow was getting brighter so I went in. I think the sky would've been too light before Jupiter was above the almost 12,000 ft mountaintop. Will keep watching for it. Kathy