Sculptor (abbr. Scl, gen. Sculptoris)
The Sculptor's Workshop; a faint southern constellation whose brightest star is Alpha Scl (visual magnitude 4.30, absolute magnitude -2.28, spectral type B7III, distance 673 light-years. It contains the Sculptor Dwarf and the Sculptor Group of galaxies.
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Sculptor. © 2003 Torsten Bronger.
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