The hare hides from the eyes of Orion directly under the celestial hunter. This little known constellation is known since ancient times, but is often overlooked.

γ Leporis is one of the most beautiful double stars for binoculars. A 3.8^m bright, yellow star is separated by 95 arc seconds from a 6.4^m bright, yellow or orange companion. Of course, the perception of color is subjective, and it has also been described as pale green. The 29 light-years distant system is a physical double star, the two stars are 1,000 AU apart.

John Russell Hind described the star R Leporis in 1845 as a “drop of blood against the background of the sky”. The star is also known as Hind’s Crimson Star ever since. It is a carbon star whose brightness varies within 420-440 days between 5.5 and 11.7^m, so that it is not always visible in binoculars. While it seems more like copper during the maxima, it is deep red during the minima. The 820 light-years distant star has a surface temperature of only 4,900° F (2,700°C). Its intense red coloration comes from both carbon compounds in the stellar atmosphere and from a cloud of dust between the star and us, which attenuates the blue portion of the light.

M 79 is a star-rich globular cluster, but it can‘t be resolved in binoculars. It thus looks like an eight minutes of arc large nebula with a total luminosity of 7.7^m. It has a diameter of 110 light-years and is located 42,500 light-years away.