The sky's Furnace
Map 16: South Equatorial 1
Sculptor to Caelum
Published: Wednesday, August 15, 2007
As the star maps dip deeper into the southern sky, we start to see constellations unfamiliar to most Northern Hemisphere observers: Fornax the Furnace, Sculptor the Engraver's Tool, Phoenix the Phoenix, and Horologium the Clock. This region's stars are bright, but we're far from the Milky Way, and that means galaxies abound.
