Constellations
Leo Minor (LMi)
The Little Lion
Also known as little lion.
6 looks for Leo Minor
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Leo Minor
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Little Lion
- IAU abbreviation
- LMi
- Its stars are named
- Leonis Minoris (as in "Alpha Leonis Minoris")
- Family
- Ursa Major family
- Where
- The northern sky: seen best from north of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in April
- Centre
- Right ascension 10h 18m, declination +35° 27′
- The figure
- 5 stars joined by 5 lines
- Brightest star
- Praecipua, magnitude 3.83
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Praecipua (46 LMi)mag 3.83
- β LMimag 4.21
- 21 LMimag 4.48
- 10 LMimag 4.55
- 30 LMimag 4.74
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation