IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Tucana
The Toucan
OriginKeyser/de Houtman
AbbreviationTuc
GenitiveTucanae
Pronunciation/tjuːˈkeɪnə/ genitive /-ni/
too-KAY-nuh/too-KAH-nuh
LocationSouthern Hemisphere
Primary Starα Tucanae
Right Ascention 0h 19m Declination -64° 52'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.009 h (0.5 min)
Tucana, “The Toucan”, is one of the inventions of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, two Dutch navigators who observed the southern skies at the end of the sixteenth century. Responsible for creating 12 southern constellations, Tucana is another of the duos designs that was based on wildlife. It represents the South American bird with the large, colorful bill.
www.underthesky.com
Tucana as depicted by Johann Bayer in his Uranometria (1603). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Tucana -167→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28
1 Tucana -167 2 Tucana -167 3 Tucana -167 4 Tucana -167 5 Tucana -167 6 Tucana -167 7 Tucana -167 8 Tucana -167 9 Tucana -167 10 Tucana -167 11 Tucana -167 12 Tucana -167 13 Tucana -167 14 Tucana -167 15 Tucana -167 16 Tucana -167 17 Tucana -167 18 Tucana -167 19 Tucana -167 20 Tucana -167 21 Tucana -167 22 Tucana -167 23 Tucana -167 24 Tucana -167 25 Tucana -167 26 Tucana -167 27 Tucana -167 28 Tucana -167 1 Tucana -165 9 December 1297 10 December 1297 11 December 1297 12 December 1297 13 December 1297 14 December 1297 15 December 1297 16 December 1297 17 December 1297 18 December 1297 19 December 1297 20 December 1297 21 December 1297 22 December 1297 23 December 1297 24 December 1297 25 December 1297 26 December 1297 27 December 1297 28 December 1297 29 December 1297 30 December 1297 31 December 1297 1 January 1298 2 January 1298 3 January 1298 4 January 1298 5 January 1298 6 January 1298 7 January 1298
MS -258650 MS -258651 MS -258652 MS -258653 MS -258654 MS -258655 MS -258656 MS -258657 MS -258658 MS -258659 MS -258660 MS -258661 MS -258662 MS -258663 MS -258664 MS -258665 MS -258666 MS -258667 MS -258668 MS -258669 MS -258670 MS -258671 MS -258672 MS -258673 MS -258674 MS -258675 MS -258676 MS -258677 MS -258622 MD -265845 MD -265844 MD -265843 MD -265842 MD -265841 MD -265840 MD -265839 MD -265838 MD -265837 MD -265836 MD -265835 MD -265834 MD -265833 MD -265832 MD -265831 MD -265830 MD -265829 MD -265828 MD -265827 MD -265826 MD -265825 MD -265824 MD -265823 MD -265822 MD -265821 MD -265820 MD -265819 MD -265818 MD -265817 MD -265816