42Sculptor, The Sculptor
NAME: Sculptor (SKULP-tor)
SEASON: Early autumn
CULMINATION: midnight, 27 September
ABBREVIATION: Scl
GENITIVE: Sculptoris (SKULP-tor-is)
NEIGHBORS: Aqr, Cet, For, Gru, Phe, PsA
BINOCULAR OBJECTS: NGC 0253
URBAN OBJECTS: none
Sculptor is an extremely faint, mid-size, mid-southerly constellation that ranks 36th in size among the 88 constellations. Sculptor covers 475 square degrees of the celestial sphere, or about 1.2%. Sculptor’s brightest stars are only fourth magnitude, and it has only three of those. Sculptor is a modern constellation, created in the 18th century by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, and so has no mythology associated with it.
Sculptor has only one featured DSO, the bright galaxy ...
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