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 -82→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
1 Tucana -82 2 Tucana -82 3 Tucana -82 4 Tucana -82 5 Tucana -82 6 Tucana -82 7 Tucana -82 8 Tucana -82 9 Tucana -82 10 Tucana -82 11 Tucana -82 12 Tucana -82 13 Tucana -82 14 Tucana -82 15 Tucana -82 16 Tucana -82 17 Tucana -82 18 Tucana -82 19 Tucana -82 20 Tucana -82 21 Tucana -82 22 Tucana -82 23 Tucana -82 24 Tucana -82 25 Tucana -82 26 Tucana -82 27 Tucana -82 2 Tucana -80 9 November 1457 10 November 1457 11 November 1457 12 November 1457 13 November 1457 14 November 1457 15 November 1457 16 November 1457 17 November 1457 18 November 1457 19 November 1457 20 November 1457 21 November 1457 22 November 1457 23 November 1457 24 November 1457 25 November 1457 26 November 1457 27 November 1457 28 November 1457 29 November 1457 30 November 1457 1 December 1457 2 December 1457 3 December 1457 4 December 1457 5 December 1457 6 December 1457 7 December 1457 8 December 1457
MS -201821 MS -201822 MS -201823 MS -201824 MS -201825 MS -201826 MS -201827 MS -201828 MS -201829 MS -201830 MS -201831 MS -201832 MS -201833 MS -201834 MS -201835 MS -201836 MS -201837 MS -201838 MS -201839 MS -201840 MS -201841 MS -201842 MS -201843 MS -201844 MS -201845 MS -201846 MS -201847 MS -201793 MD -207437 MD -207436 MD -207435 MD -207434 MD -207433 MD -207432 MD -207431 MD -207430 MD -207429 MD -207428 MD -207427 MD -207426 MD -207425 MD -207424 MD -207423 MD -207422 MD -207421 MD -207420 MD -207419 MD -207418 MD -207417 MD -207416 MD -207415 MD -207414 MD -207413 MD -207412 MD -207411 MD -207410 MD -207409 MD -207408