LEPUS

Little Lepus, whose main figure looks a little like an old box kite, lies below Orion, whose southern end is marked by Rigel at the top edge and Saiph down and to the left. Mirzam, in Canis Major, is toward the lower left edge. Arneb (Alpha Leporis) is at dead center. Nihal (Beta) is down and to the right of Arneb, while Mu Lep is up and to the right. A line from Arneb to Mu extended through the same distance points at faint, reddish R Leporis (Hind's Crimson Star). Delta and Gamma (the latter to the right) complete a four-star box down and to the left of Arneb and Nihal.

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For more on Lepus, see "The Bunny and the Bird" at "Stellar Stories."

See Lepus from Bayer's Uranometria of 1603