and a distance of 93.3 parsecs. It also has the shortest period for any CVs known to date (as of August 2023).

BW Sculptoris was discovered in 1997 by two teams. Abbott et al. discovered it with ROSAT as RX J2353.0-3852. Augusteijn & Wisotzki discovered it independently in the Hamburg/ESO survey with the ESO 1.52 meter telescope and it was originally designated HE 2350-3908 (it received its variable star designation,