Lepus

Origin

Lepus, Latin for a hare, is a small constellation located just south of the celestial equator.

Bright Stars

Alpha Leporis, the brightest star of Lepus at magnitude 2.6. It called Arneb which means "hare" in Arabic.

Beta Leporis, a magnitude-2.8 star.

Gamma Leporis is a double star in binoculars. The primary is magnitude 3.6, and the secondary is magnitude 6.2. Delta Leporis is a magnitude-3.8 star. Epsilon Leporis is magnitude 3.2. Kappa Leporis is a double star and can be resolved through medium-aperture amateur telescopes. The primary is magnitude 4.4 and the secondary is magnitude 7.4.

Photo of the constellation Lepus produced by NOIRLab in collaboration with Eckhard Slawik, a German astrophotographer. The annotations are from a standardized set of 88 western IAU constellations and stick figures from Sky & Telescope. Please find here a non-annotated version of the image.

Credit: E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani