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| IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg) | |
| Tucana | |
| The Toucan | |
| Origin | Keyser/de Houtman |
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| Abbreviation | Tuc |
| Genitive | Tucanae |
| Pronunciation | /tjuːˈkeɪnə/ genitive /-ni/ |
| too-KAY-nuh/too-KAH-nuh | |
| Location | Southern Hemisphere |
| Primary Star | α 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. | |
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| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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