α Antliae - The brightest star of the constellation has a magnitude of 4.25, in many constellations it would remain unnoticed. In a telescope, we can see its orange to red hue. Its spectral class is K4, so it is a cooler star than our Sun. Its brightness may slightly vary and it is located 370 light-years away.

ζ Antliae - A multiple star that is resolved into two wide optical components of sixth magnitude by a trihedron. With a small telescope, we additionally find that the brighter one of them is itself a binary star - a yellow companion of magnitude 7.1 is located eight arc seconds away from it.

S Antliae - Discovered in 1888, it is an eclipsing variable star with a brightness change of 0.5mag over exactly 7 hours and 47 minutes. At the time of its discovery, it was known as the variable star with the shortest period of brightness changes. It is included in the group of stars under the designation of W URSA Majoris type, a system where two dwarf stars orbit each other in close contact, constantly changing their position from our perspective.