Deneb Kaitos (β Cet) - With a brightness of 2.04 mag, it is the brightest star in the constellation. However, when the long-period variable star Mira Ceti is at its maximum, it becomes the brightest in the constellation. The line connecting the stars Alpheratz and Gamma Pegasi from the Square of Pegasus points to Deneb Kaitos. It is occasionally confused with the star Fomalhaut, but it is one magnitude fainter than it. It is located 96 light-years away.

Menkar (α Cet) - The orange field of apparent brightness 2.53mag is located 250 light-years away from us. At a distance of nearly 16', the star 93 Ceti (5.6mag) lies to the north, visible to the naked eye as an optical companion.

Mira Ceti (ο Cet) - The most famous long-period variable star, about which the Dutch amateur observer David Fabricius in Germany believed on August 13, 1596 that it was a new star, similar to the recent Tycho's star from 1572. In the then or older atlas, no star of magnitude 3 was drawn in the neck of the Whale. Only during its observation over the next year did he realize that it changes its brightness. As the first one, even before the invention of the telescope during Galileo's time, he discovered the first variable star in the history of astronomy! The star gradually disappeared and reappeared, until in 1603 the German astrocartographer Johann Bayer included it in his atlas as an object of magnitude 4. Later, in 1662, Jan Hevelius named it "Mira stella" - the wonderful star. The tip of the letter "V" formed by the stars from the constellation of Pisces points to it. Mira is located 300 light-years away.

Kaffaljidhma (γ Cet) - A beautiful close physical binary star, distinguishable in a 100 mm telescope, with a yellow component of magnitude 3.5 and a white component of magnitude 7.3. It is separated by 2.8". The mutual orbital period of this pair is estimated to be several millennia. In a 200 mm telescope, a red dwarf of magnitude 10 is added, which is also part of the system. It is separated by 14'. The entire system is located approximately 80 light-years away.

τ Cet - Its slow rotation points to the possible existence of a planetary system and thus the possibility of the emergence and existence of life on this yellow dwarf star similar to the Sun (both in temperature and luminous power). It would be one of our closest planetary systems, located 11.85 light-years away from Earth. Therefore, it was selected for the Ozma project, whose goal is to establish contact with potential nearby civilizations through radio waves. Along with the star Epsilon Eridani, it was also chosen for the original research project of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence).

66 Cet - The star consists of two companions with magnitudes of 5.7 and 7.5. Their angular separation is 16.5 arcseconds. While in small telescopes they appear as a pair of yellow and blue components, in a 200 mm telescope the color of the second component changes to violet.