As the year draws to a close, nights are often sparkling clear and still, and everyone enjoys setting up their telescope on the frosty grass and gazing in awe and wonder at the greenand-grey billows and swirls of the Orion Nebula. But Orion has much more to offer than just that 1,400-light-year-distant stellar nursery. In and around the Hunter there are more subtle, more challenging wonders to hunt down.