Hi, Signet...
The only thing I could find on Little Leo (Leo Minor) is the following; very interesting.
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Observing Leo Minor
The Constellation of the Little Lion
© Kelly Whitt
Jan 8, 2008 Locate Leo Minor the Little Lion and learn about its stars and deep-sky targets.
The ancients visualized the first constellations, drawing dot-to-dot figures out of the brightest stars and naming them after creatures and gods that were important to them. What was left was streteches of space between the well-known and bright stars, dark territory that sometimes holds little in the way of stars, nebula, clusters, and galaxies. One of these dark regions is Leo Minor.
The Creation of Leo MinorLeo Minor was named by astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the late 1600s. He also named other "dead" spaces of sky that were not originally parts of other constellations. Leo Minor means the Little Lion, a name chosen because of its location near Leo, the great Lion.
Locating Leo MinorLeo Minor is a constellation that is easy to find but not easy to see. This is because it is sandwiched between two very well-known constellations but has no stars itself that are prominent.
Ursa Major and its Big Dipper lie above Leo Minor, and the great lion Leo lies below it. The constellation is best seen in spring after it has risen above the horizon. Sometimes the Little Lion is said to be standing on Leo's back.
Stars of the Little LionIt may be a challenge to pick out the triangular shape of Leo Minor. Only one of its stars is above 4th magnitude. It is named 46 Leonis Minoris and shines at magnitude 3.79. 46 Leonis Minoris lies 98 light-years away. It can be found about 24 and a half degrees above Regulus or between the hind legs of Ursa Major. 46 Leonis Minoris makes up the bottom left corner of Leo Minor's triangle shape.
The top star in the triangle is Beta Leonis Minoris, a magnitude 4.2 star lying 146 light-years away. The bottom right corner of this short and wide triangle is completed by 21 Leonis Minoris, a magnitude 4.49 star lying 91 light-years distant.
Galaxies in Leo MinorThe only deep-sky objects of note in Leo Minor are all galaxies. While there are many galaxies in the background of the Little Lion, unfortunately, they are all rather dim. One area that is easy to target is immediately below the brightest star in Leo Minor, 46 Leonis Minoris. A mere 18 arcminutes below 46 Leonis Minoris is NGC 3442, a 13th magnitude galaxy that can be seen in large telescopes.
One degree below NGC 3442 is a cluster of faint galaxies. The brightest here is NGC 3430 at magnitude 11.5. How many other galaxies can you spot through your telescope in this region of sky?
For one last galaxy, look between the two stars that make up the big lion, Leo's, back. Four and a half degrees up from the center of this line is NGC 3344, a 10th magnitude spiral galaxy with a bright core. It lies about 25 million light-years from Earth!
SOURCE: http://stargazing.suite101.com/article.cfm...rving_leo_minor