Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

Ephemeris for Monday, January 14th.  The sun will rise at 8:16.  It’ll be up for 9 hours and 11 minutes, setting at 5:27.   The moon, 3 days past new, will set at 9:23 this evening.

Orion, the central winter constellation is seen in the southern sky this evening. He is a hunter, as artists depict him, he is preoccupied with the charge of Taurus the bull from the upper right.  At Orion’s feet, and unnoticed by him is the small constellation of Lepus the hare.  It’s very hard to see a rabbit in its eight dim stars: however, I can see a rabbit’s head ears and shoulders.  A misshapen box is the head and face of this critter facing to the left.  His ears extend upwards from the upper right star of the box, and the bend forward a bit.  Two stars to the right of the box and a bit fart

Orion facing Taurus letting Lepus escape with Jupiter in 2013. Created using Stellarium.

her apart hint at the front part of the body.  In Lepus telescopes can find M79, a distant globular star cluster, one of the few visible in the winter sky.

Times are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan.  They may be different for your location.

Addendum