Tucana

Abbreviation: Tuc
Genitive: Tucanae
Right Ascension: 0.13 hours
Declination: -64.96 degrees

Tucana, the Toucan Bird, is completely visible in latitudes South of 14 degrees North from August - October.

Tucana was invented by Pieter Dirksz Keyser and Fredrick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597.

Tucana's claim to fame; is the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is a satelitte galaxy to the Mily Way, the other interesting thing about SMC is that it posses an NGC number, the Large Magellanic Cloud does not have an NGC number, even though it is much denser and brighter, and neither do the Pleaides (M45).

Bright Stars | Deep Sky | Other Deep Sky | Variable Stars | Double Stars

Best Known Stars

(Yale Bright Star Catalog)

Common Name or Bayer Number 1	RA	DEC	Magnitude 2
ALP TUC	22.00:18.00:30.09	-60.00:15.00:34.59	2.86
GAM TUC	23.00:17.00:25.76	-58.00:14.00:8.62	3.99
ZET TUC	0.00:20.00:4.25	-64.00:52.00:29.25	4.23
EPS TUC	23.00:59.00:54.97	-65.00:34.00:37.72	4.50
IOT TUC	1.00:7.00:18.65	-61.00:46.00:31.04	5.37
LAM2 TUC	0.00:55.00:0.29	-69.00:31.00:37.49	5.45

Deep Sky Objects

(PAS Catalog)

Other Deep Sky Objects

(Saguaro Astronomy Club Catalog)

Only Objects less than 10.0 Mag.

Object	R.A.	Dec.	Object Type 3	Mag.	Uranometria	Tirion
NGC 104	00 24.1	-72 05	GLOCL	04	440	24
NGC 292	00 52.8	-72 50	GALXY	02.3	460	24
NGC 330	00 56.2	-72 29	SMCGC	09.6	441	24
NGC 362	01 03.2	-70 51	GLOCL	06.6	441	24
NGC 419	01 08.3	-72 53	SMCGC	10.0	460	24

Variable Stars

(General Catalog of Variable Stars)

Only Objects <= 8.0 magnitude

GCVS ID	R.A. (hh mm ss.ss)	Dec. (deg mm ss)	Variable Type 4	Mag. Min	Mag. Max
BQ Tuc	0.00:51.00:33.40	-63.00:8.00:33.00	LB:	0.20	5.70
BS Tuc	1.00:6.00:5.70	-62.00:8.00:17.00	DSCT	7.57	7.43
CC Tuc	1.00:0.00:48.40	-65.00:43.00:28.00	LB	0.10	6.19
CF Tuc	0.00:51.00:28.10	-74.00:55.00:23.00	EA/RS	7.80	7.44
CG Tuc	23.00:26.00:8.30	-63.00:23.00:10.00	ACV	0.04	5.66
tet Tuc	0.00:31.00:16.80	-71.00:32.00:31.00	DSCTC	6.15	6.06
nu Tuc	22.00:29.00:38.40	-62.00:14.00:23.00	LB:	4.93	4.75

Double Stars

(Saguaro Astronomy Club Catalog)

Only Objects <= 8.0 magnitude

Name	R.A. (hh mm.m)	Dec. (deg mm)	Mag 5	Sep 6	PA 7	Tirion	Uranometria
DUN 2	00 52.4	-69 30	6.6, 8.0	20.60	81	24	441
HJ 3416	01 03.3	-60 05	7.4, 7.5	5.00	128	24	417
HJ 3423	01 15.7	-68 52	5.1, 7.3	5.20	326	24	441
DUN 247	23 18.0	-61 00	6.7, 7.8	46.60	291	26	439/ 459