Constellations
Lepus (Lep)
The Hare
Also known as hare.
6 looks for Lepus
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 Lepus
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Hare
- IAU abbreviation
- Lep
- Its stars are named
- Leporis (as in "Alpha Leporis")
- Family
- Orion family
- Where
- Along the celestial equator: seen from both hemispheres
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in January
- Centre
- Right ascension 5h 34m, declination −17° 23′
- The figure
- 11 stars joined by 10 lines
- Brightest star
- Arneb, magnitude 2.58
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Arneb (α Lep)mag 2.58
- Nihal (β Lep)mag 2.84
- ε Lepmag 3.19
- μ Lepmag 3.31
- ζ Lepmag 3.55
- Kursi al Jabbar (γ Lep)mag 3.60
- η Lepmag 3.71
- Arsh al Jauzah (δ Lep)mag 3.81
- λ Lepmag 4.29
- κ Lepmag 4.36
- θ Lepmag 4.67
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