Pisces Austrinis and Grus are towards west of Sculptor constellation. If you move your eyes towards east, you will see another constellation named Fornax. In the North of Sculptor, you will find Cetus and Aquaris and in South, Phoenix constellation. Sculptor is halfway between celestial equator and South Pole, and so is fully part of Southern Hemisphere.
It covers up 475 square degree area of the sky. Area wise it is 36th largest constellation in the sky.
We can gaze at this sculptor shape of Sculptor constellation from May to January, as seen from India.
Constellation Sculptor
All you need is your naked eyes other than clear skies to see 58 stars of this constellations, as they are the one which are brighter than the lower limit of our naked eyes (i.e. 6.5 apparent magnitude) to see faintest stars. The brightest star of this constellation is Alph sculptoris.
Constellations are made up of single, binary (apparent and absolute), multiple and variable stars. Out of total 58 stars of different types, here is the list of 20 brightest stars as per their nature:
As per Hindu mythology, there are no such known stories for this constellation.
Deep Sky Objects…
Blanco 1 || Open cluster
Cartwheel Galaxy || Lenticular Ring Galaxy
ESO-540-030 || Dwarf Galaxy
All the stars that we see naked eyes, all belong to our own, Milky way galaxy (Akash Ganga Tara Vishv). Bright stars can be seen naked eye and faint one through telescope. But the curtain of sky that we see in 2D is actually a huge universe we are talking about, with 3 dimension. There are many nebulous objects visible in every constellations. They differ widely by distances and nature. Like Emission Nebula, Reflecting Nebula, Absorption Nebula, Star Birth Nebula, Supernova Remnants (SNR) and Open Starscluster which are within the disk of our own Milky Way galaxy. Globular cluster are also found, which are in the halo of our galaxy and some most distant objects like galaxies are also visible through telescope. Such objects are defined as “Deep Sky Objects”.
In this constellation there are 107 such different types of Deep Sky Objects observed. Below is the list of 20 brightest Deep Sky Objects:
NGC 7 || Spiral Galaxy
NGC 10 || Spiral Galaxy
NGC 24 || Spiral Galaxy
Galaxy
Open Cluster
Globular Cluster
Nebula
Supernova Remnant
Naked eye visibility
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Visible through Telescope
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The Whale Galaxy or NGC 55 || Spiral Galaxy
NGC 134 || Spiral Galaxy
NGC 288 || Globular Cluster
east, you will see another constellation named Fornax. In the North of Sculptor, you will find Cetus and Aquaris and in South, Phoenix constellation. Sculptor is halfway between celestial equator and South Pole, and so is fully part of Southern Hemisphere.
Blanco 1 || Open cluster
Cartwheel Galaxy || Lenticular Ring Galaxy
ESO-540-030 || Dwarf Galaxy
NGC 7 || Spiral Galaxy
NGC 10 || Spiral Galaxy
NGC 24 || Spiral Galaxy
The Whale Galaxy or NGC 55 || Spiral Galaxy
NGC 134 || Spiral Galaxy
NGC 288 || Globular Cluster