Delta Ceti is the neck of the whale, an unassuming 4.1 magnitude star with a Messier neighbour, M77.

With gamma at the northern edge of your binocular view, delta Ceti is centred: binoculars.

M77 (NGC 1068) is a tiny face-on spiral which really needs at least a medium-sized telescope. M77 is considered one of the most distant of Messier's objects, at about 50 million light years away.

This region is useful for starhopping to omicron Ceti (Mira), the most famous of all long-period variables. Locate 75 Ceti to the southwest of delta. Now place this star at the northeastern edge and you'll be in the region of Mira.