Constellation Sculptor

Properties

Sculptor is located south of Deneb Kaitos of the constellation Cetus and east of Formalhaut of the constellation Piscis Austrinus. It is inconspicuous and consists only of stars just under 4.5th size class. The area covered by the constellation in the sky is 475 square degrees and the centre culminates around midnight on September 27th. ^{[9, 15]}

Data for constellation Sculptor ^[150]
IAU Name	Sculptor
IAU Genitive	Sculptoris
IAU Abbr.	Scl
English Name	Sculptor
Culmination at local midnight	2 October
Season (Latitude +46.8°)	August … January
Right Ascension (J2000.0)	23^h 06^m 43^s … 01^h 45^m 50^s
Declination (J2000.0)	-39° 22' 21" … -24° 48' 15"
Area	475 deg²
Neighbours (N↻)	Cet, Aqr, PsA, Gru, Phe, For

Deep-Sky Object Descriptions

NGC 55

Silver Dollar
NGC 253

NGC 288

NGC 300

NGC 613

Catalogues

History

Sculptor is one of the nondescript, almost forgotten constellations introduced by Lacaille in 1752. Its original name was L'atelier du Sculpteur (the sculptor's studio). Why it should remind of this remains unclear. ^[7]