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 -820→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28
1 Tucana -820 2 Tucana -820 3 Tucana -820 4 Tucana -820 5 Tucana -820 6 Tucana -820 7 Tucana -820 8 Tucana -820 9 Tucana -820 10 Tucana -820 11 Tucana -820 12 Tucana -820 13 Tucana -820 14 Tucana -820 15 Tucana -820 16 Tucana -820 17 Tucana -820 18 Tucana -820 19 Tucana -820 20 Tucana -820 21 Tucana -820 22 Tucana -820 23 Tucana -820 24 Tucana -820 25 Tucana -820 26 Tucana -820 27 Tucana -820 28 Tucana -820 1 Tucana -818 22 May 0069 23 May 0069 24 May 0069 25 May 0069 26 May 0069 27 May 0069 28 May 0069 29 May 0069 30 May 0069 31 May 0069 1 June 0069 2 June 0069 3 June 0069 4 June 0069 5 June 0069 6 June 0069 7 June 0069 8 June 0069 9 June 0069 10 June 0069 11 June 0069 12 June 0069 13 June 0069 14 June 0069 15 June 0069 16 June 0069 17 June 0069 18 June 0069 19 June 0069 20 June 0069
MS -695242 MS -695243 MS -695244 MS -695245 MS -695246 MS -695247 MS -695248 MS -695249 MS -695250 MS -695251 MS -695252 MS -695253 MS -695254 MS -695255 MS -695256 MS -695257 MS -695258 MS -695259 MS -695260 MS -695261 MS -695262 MS -695263 MS -695264 MS -695265 MS -695266 MS -695267 MS -695268 MS -695269 MS -695214 MD -714564 MD -714563 MD -714562 MD -714561 MD -714560 MD -714559 MD -714558 MD -714557 MD -714556 MD -714555 MD -714554 MD -714553 MD -714552 MD -714551 MD -714550 MD -714549 MD -714548 MD -714547 MD -714546 MD -714545 MD -714544 MD -714543 MD -714542 MD -714541 MD -714540 MD -714539 MD -714538 MD -714537 MD -714536 MD -714535