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Constellation Sculptor, the Sculptor’s Workshop, is a southern constellation bordering Aquarius, Cetus, Fornax, Phoenix, Grus, Piscis Austrinus and the obsolete constellation Machina Electrica.

Sculptor was introduced by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1752 and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It spans 24 degrees of the zodiac in the Signs of Pisces and Aries.

Abbreviation: Scl
Genitive: Sculptoris

Sculptor Constellation Stars

2000	2050	Star	Name	Sp. Class	Mag.	Orb
07♓00	07♓42	γ Scl		K1	4.41	1°10′
07♓14	07♓56	β Scl		B9	4.38	1°10′
15♓34	16♓17	δ Scl		A0	4.59	1°10′
21♓35	22♓17	η Scl		M2	4.86	1°00′
00♈30	01♈12	α Scl		B7	4.30	1°10′
09♈03	09♈46	π Scl		K1	5.25	1°00′
13♈56	14♈38	ε Scl		F2	5.29	1°00′

ε and π of Sculptor belonged to the obsolete constellation Machina Electrica.

Sculptor Astrology

Robson

History. Formed by de Lacaille in 1752, its full title being Apparatus Sculptoris.

Influence. It is said to give ambition, creative imagination and artistic abilities. ^[1]

Allen

Sculptor, as it is now generally known, was formed by La Caille from stars between Cetus and Phoenix. He called it l’Atelier du Sculpteur, the Sculptor’s Studio or Workshop, which Burritt and others have changed to Officina Sculptoria, or occasionally Apparatus Sculptoris.

It is an inconspicuous figure, but contains the intensely scarlet variable R, one of the most brilliantly colored stars in the heavens, with a period of variability from 5.8 to about 7.7 in 207 days.

Gould catalogues 131 stars, from 4.2 to 7th magnitudes.

References

1. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.61.
2. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Richard H. Allen, 1889, p.372-373.