Constellations · Constellation · Sculptoris · Scl
Constellation
Sculptor
The sculptor’s workshop, a faint patch of sky that contains the South Galactic Pole — looking out of the Milky Way at a wealth of galaxies.
- Genitive
- Sculptoris
- Area
- 475 square degrees · 36th of 88
- Brightest star
- · magnitude 4.30
- Naked-eye stars
- 54 brighter than magnitude 6.5
- Highest at midnight
- mid September
Look for
The Sculptor Galaxy is one of the brightest galaxies in the sky, a spiral close to edge-on. Caroline Herschel found it in 1783.
Look for
The Sculptor Dwarf, a satellite of the Milky Way, was one of the first dwarf galaxies found, in 1937.