Lepus

Lepus, or 'The Hare', is a small but fairly easily seen constellation just below Orion. Sporting only 4 third magnitude stars, it nevertheless stands out on a dark night because it lies in a part of the sky where few bright stars are found. Just to the East, of course, lies Canis Major in the Milky Way, with its brilliant Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. But The Hare is entirely outside that faint glow of our galaxy and is also one of those constellations that can be seen to represent the outline of its namesake, with its nose to the ground. The brightest star, named Arneb, is a type F giant, being 8 to 10 times the mass of our sun and about 13,000 times as bright. But since it lies at a distance of about 1300 light years, it appears only at third magnitude in our skies. Nihol, the star just below Arneb, while being a type G object, much less massive and less brilliant, appears to be almost as bright because it is only about 160 light years distant.
Best times to see Lepus are January through March.