A minor constellation of sculptor can be found just east of Fomalhaut, alpha PsA. The constellation has only stars finer than fifth magnitude. In 1763, Lacaille has established it with some constellations in the southern hemisphere. Though the constellation has the Latin name of "Sculptor", it has translated to "Sculptor's studio" in English. The Sculptor is lying at the farthest region from the Milky Way. Say, the constellation is positioned around the Galactic South Pole. And it's the Coma Berenices occupying the opposite point in the celestial sphere, i.e., the Galactic North Pole. Both constellations contain plenty of outer galaxies because inner-Galactic gaseous matter doesn't obstruct faint light from them. Especially a middle-sized galaxy of NGC253 lying northern region in Sculptor can be enjoy through binoculars.
Galaxy In Sculptor
NGC253
The constellation of Sculptor is a very minor one just south of Cetus. Though Sculptor includes no bright stars, but NGC253 is a large and bright galaxy in autumnal southern skies, and the galaxy is more popular than the constellation in that the galaxy is included. The galaxy can be found easily by following about 7 degrees south from beta Ceti that marks the tail of Cetus. You'll notice a large dimmed light being an ellipse only with portable binoculars. NGC253 has a length of 27 arc minutes, a bit shorter than the apparent diameter of full-moon, looks like a shrinked Andromeda Galaxy (M31).
NGC300
NGC300 (Bennett 6, Caldwell 70) is a spiral galaxy in south-eastern Sculptor located 7.2° north-east of Ankaa (Alpha Phoenicis). Dreyer describes it as fairly bright (mag. 9), very large (20'x15'), with an irregular, elongated shape that brightens slowly toward its nucleus. Larger scopes should see two sprawling, S shaped arms. The tiny mag.
NGC288
The central nucleus is brightening, and the parts of spirals are stretched clearly toward NE and SW, it should be a very splendid view through small scopes. And you can find a Globular Cluster of NGC288 about 2 degrees SE of NGC253, visible like a dimmed oval light paralleled with the galaxy via binoculars.
ESO350-40
In central region of Sculptor, a popular colliding galactic pair of "Cartwheel galaxy" is positioned. A larger one with shape of cartwheel has been registered as ESO350-40, and eastern another dwarf galaxy collided head on is ESO350-40A.
ESO350-40A
These galaxies have visual brightness of about 19th magnitude, and size of smaller than 1 arc minutes, very very dimmed celestial objects difficult to detect with amateur telescopes. I have displayed an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in this page. I think you can recognize outlines of these galaxies by comparing with HST's clear picture.
NGC 55
NGC 55, an edge-on galaxy in the Sculptor Group The nearest galaxy to the Milky Way is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which we see from a distance of 170,000 light years. It is inclined to our line of sight by about 40 degrees. Magellanic-type galaxies are quite rare, so we are lucky to have such a close view of such an unusual specimen. For purely statistical reasons edge-on galaxies are also rare, so we are especially fortunate to have in NGC 55 an example of a Magellanic-type galaxy seen edge-on which is also nearby.
NGC 55 is at a distance of about 5 million light years, which is close enough for us to see it resolved into individual stars. With a big telescope like the AAT, the central regions look very much like the Milky Way seen with an ordinary camera. NGC 55 is a member of the Sculptor group, where the galaxies are few in number and well separated in space. It is probably for this reason that NGC 55 is not rich in star forming regions, because it is not interacting with any nearby companion galaxy, unlike the LMC, which is istirred up by interactions with both the Milky Way and the Small Magellanic Cloud.
NGC7793 (Bennett 130)
NGC7793 (Bennett 130) is a spiral galaxy located in the middle of the Sculptor lozenge, and described as "like a comet." It shines at mag. 9.6, and measures 9.4'x6.3'. Larger telescopes might detect structure, such as mottling and what appears to be concentric shells.
NGC613 (Bennett 8)
NGC613 (Bennett 8) is a barred spiral galaxy located 7.8° west of Alpha Sculptoris. Dreyer describes it as very bright (mag. 10), very large (6'x4'), very moderately extended (118°), with an abruptly brighter middle, and a 10th magnitude star to the northeast. The brighter core is much more pronounced in larger amateur instruments (13"), as is the curvature of the galaxy's arms.
Planetary Destinations In Sculptor
HD 4208 (G3/G5 V)
HD 4203 (G5 V)
