If you arrived at this page it must mean you read and enjoyed S&T Contributing Editor Steve Gottlieb's Going Deep column in the October 2023 issue of the magazine on the Milky Way's dwarf spheroidal companions titled "The Milky Way and the Seven Dwarfs." The images below should help you find your targets, which are indicated by the dashed red circles. Brighter stars are labeled and their magnitudes reported without a decimal. The field of view is in the lower left corner.

Sculptor Dwarf finder
Finder for the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.
POSS-II / STScI / Caltech / Palomar Observatory
Fornax Dwarf finder
Finder for the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy.
POSS-II / STScI / Caltech / Palomar Observatory
Leo I Dwarf finder
Finder for the Leo I Dwarf Galaxy.
POSS-II / STScI / Caltech / Palomar Observatory
Leo II Dwarf finder
Finder for the Leo II Dwarf Galaxy.
POSS-II / STScI / Caltech / Palomar Observatory
Draco Dwarf finder
Finder for the Draco Dwarf Galaxy.
POSS-II / STScI / Caltech / Palomar Observatory
Ursa Minor Dwarf finder
Finder for the Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy.
POSS-II / STScI / Caltech / Palomar Observatory
Sagittarius Dwarf finder
Finder for the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy.
POSS-II / STScI / Caltech / Palomar Observatory

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