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 812→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
1 Tucana 812 2 Tucana 812 3 Tucana 812 4 Tucana 812 5 Tucana 812 6 Tucana 812 7 Tucana 812 8 Tucana 812 9 Tucana 812 10 Tucana 812 11 Tucana 812 12 Tucana 812 13 Tucana 812 14 Tucana 812 15 Tucana 812 16 Tucana 812 17 Tucana 812 18 Tucana 812 19 Tucana 812 20 Tucana 812 21 Tucana 812 22 Tucana 812 23 Tucana 812 24 Tucana 812 25 Tucana 812 26 Tucana 812 27 Tucana 812 1 Phoenix 813 29 September 3139 30 September 3139 1 October 3139 2 October 3139 3 October 3139 4 October 3139 5 October 3139 6 October 3139 7 October 3139 8 October 3139 9 October 3139 10 October 3139 11 October 3139 12 October 3139 13 October 3139 14 October 3139 15 October 3139 16 October 3139 17 October 3139 18 October 3139 19 October 3139 20 October 3139 21 October 3139 22 October 3139 23 October 3139 24 October 3139 25 October 3139 26 October 3139
MS 395872 MS 395873 MS 395874 MS 395875 MS 395876 MS 395877 MS 395878 MS 395879 MS 395880 MS 395881 MS 395882 MS 395883 MS 395884 MS 395885 MS 395886 MS 395887 MS 395888 MS 395889 MS 395890 MS 395891 MS 395892 MS 395893 MS 395894 MS 395895 MS 395896 MS 395897 MS 395898 MS 395899 MD 406859 MD 406860 MD 406861 MD 406862 MD 406863 MD 406864 MD 406865 MD 406866 MD 406867 MD 406868 MD 406869 MD 406870 MD 406871 MD 406872 MD 406873 MD 406874 MD 406875 MD 406876 MD 406877 MD 406878 MD 406879 MD 406880 MD 406881 MD 406882 MD 406883 MD 406884 MD 406885 MD 406886