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Apparatus Sculptoris

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Mentioned in the book, The Genesis of Capsaa, is the actual constellation of Apparatus Sculptoris, this means the Sculptor's Studio, and was named by Nicolas Louis de Lascaille in 1751-52 following a two year observation of the night skies from the Cape of Good Hope.
In that time he catalogued some 10,000 stars previously unlisted, as well as mapping another 14 new constellations.
The small and feint constellation of Sculptor is visible to observers south of latitude 50°N, and it is bordered by Aquarius and Cetus to its North, there is Fornax to the east, Piscis Austrinus away to the west, and Phoenix and Grus can been seen to the south.
It lives on the equitorial plane as defined by the astronomical mapping system, at 00h 00m 00s, −30° 00′ 00″, and it is quite some distance from Earth, estimated to be around 780 light years.
There are several items of interest in the vacinity, the brightest star is Alpha Sculptoris, a second bright star is named Delta Sculptoris, and a Red Giant named simply as R Sculptoris.
The constellation also contains a dwarf galaxy named as Sculptor Dwarf, and a barred spiral galaxy (NGC 253), the Sculptor Galaxy, this is the largest member of the group, residing near the border between Sculptor and Cetus to the North.
In the region of the Constellation is the irregular galaxy NGC 55, and a unique Cartwheel Galaxy, this is at a distance of around 500 million light-years and has a spread of somewhere in the region of 100,000 light years, at its core are older, yellow stars, and at its outer ring are younger, blue stars.

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