Beta Pictoris is very similar to alpha, only slightly less bright at 3.8 visual magnitude, and much closer at 63 light years. It forms the northern terminus of this artist's easel.

The star is northwest of Canopus, just out of this bright star's field of view: binoculars.

In the same field of view, to the south, is gamma, the middle star in the asterism, with a visual magnitude of 4.5.