Constellations
Sculptor (Scl)
The Sculptor
6 looks for Sculptor
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Sculptor
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Sculptor
- IAU abbreviation
- Scl
- Its stars are named
- Sculptoris (as in "Alpha Sculptoris")
- Family
- La Caille family
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in November
- Centre
- Right ascension 23h 55m, declination −32° 19′
- The figure
- 4 stars joined by 3 lines
- Brightest star
- α Scl, magnitude 4.31
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- α Sclmag 4.31
- β Sclmag 4.37
- γ Sclmag 4.41
- δ Sclmag 4.57
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation