Sculptor Scl
Sculptor is one of the 88 constellations, covering 475 square degrees of the sky (36th largest). It is highest at midnight in September and best in the evening sky in October and November.
4 of its best-known objects have a page of their own here.
Facts
| Abbreviation | Scl |
|---|---|
| Size | 475 square degrees (36th largest of the 88; the full Moon covers about 0.2) |
| Middle (J2000) | 0h 28m, −32° |
| Highest at midnight | September (in the evening, around 8–10 pm: October and November) |
| How high | From India (about 20° N) its middle climbs to about 38° above the horizon; from 50° N, to about 8°. |
| Pages here | 4 objects |
Galaxies
3Star clusters
1Brightest NGC and IC objects
OpenNGC| Object | Type | Magnitude | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGC 288 (on the map) | Globular star cluster | 8.1 | 9.6′ |
| NGC 55 (on the map) | Galaxy | 8.5 | 29.9′ |
| ESO351-030 (Sculptor Dwarf Elliptical) | Galaxy | 8.6 | 15.3′ |
| NGC 300 (on the map) | Galaxy | 8.7 | 19.4′ |
| NGC 7793 (on the map) | Galaxy | 9.3 | 10.4′ |
| IC 5332 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10 | 6.1′ |
| NGC 7507 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10 | 3.3′ |
| NGC 134 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.3 | 8.4′ |
| NGC 613 (on the map) | Galaxy | 10.4 | 5.5′ |
| NGC 253 (Sculptor Filament) | Galaxy | 11.1 | 26.8′ |
| NGC 7713 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.2 | 4.9′ |
| NGC 289 (on the map) | Galaxy | 11.2 | 3.4′ |
Smaller magnitudes are brighter; the faintest stars the eye sees are about 6. The full Moon is about 31′ across.
Data: IAU constellation boundaries (Roman 1987) · OpenNGC (Mattia Verga, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data sources & credits