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Alpha Sculptoris (α Scl α Sculptoris) is the Bayer designation for a star in the southern constellation of Sculptor. It has an apparent visual magnitude of +4.30 which makes it the brightest star in this generally faint constellation. Parallax measurements collected during the Hipparcos mission provide a distance estimate for this star placing it at roughly 780 light-years (240 parsecs) with a 4% margin of error.Alpha Sculptoris is a blue-white B-type giant.
