The smaller Lion designated by Johannes Hevelius in 1687, located between Ursa Major and Leo. Leo Minor hardly merits a separate name as there are no bright stars. He designed 10 new constellations, and we still use 7 of them today.
There are some suggestions that the stars that form Leo
Minor were once identified by the Arab astronomers as Al Thiba wa-Auladuha or
the Gazelle and her young.
The brightest star is 46 Leo Minoris with a magnitude of 3.8, its an orange K class giant star lying at a distance of 95 light years.
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