12/03/2012 – Ephemeris – Orion rising
Ephemeris for Monday, December 3rd. The sun will rise at 8:01. It’ll be up for 9 hours and 1 minute, setting at 5:02. The moon, 3 days before last quarter, will rise at 9:56 this evening.
Off in the southeast at 9 in the evening the great constellation of Orion will be seen now. This is the most famous of all constellations world wide. We think the Big Dipper is a big deal. It’s not even a constellation, being the hind end of the great bear Ursa Major. However it’s invisible if one travels far enough south of the equator. Orion is now a rectangle of stars tilted to the left as he rises. With three stars in a straight line in the center. They are aligned nearly vertically. Orion is a giant hunter. The rectangle depict his shoulders and knees. Among its other bright stars Orion contains two of the brightest. The upper left star is the famous red giant star Betelgeuse. The lower left star is the blue=white super giant Rigel.
Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan. They may be different for your location.
Addendum
Orion rising at 9 p.m. December 3, 2012. Created using Stellarium.
Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog 
Why do people just lie and make up crap? Many believed Orion would appear of eachof Giza pyramids this morning. Thanks for the clarification. I know that many people were looking for this configuration on 12.3.2012 as some further sign of the earth being destroyed. I do remember seeing this configuration or one that resembled it in 2005. Many cultures have said the worst will happen and that may be true. But the constellations, stars, planets, etc., seem to love misery, war, destruction, etc., instead of setting up a configuration to show peace and love from above.
CRITICXTREME,
The star patterns of Orion have changed very little since humans have looked at it in antiquity. The ancient Greeks called the stars of the constellations fixed stars. Planets were wandering stars, comets were hairy stars, and meteors were falling stars. Tomorrow’s program will talk about one wandering star in particular, the planet Mercury and will feature an animation of the planet’s motion.
Bob