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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Tucananoun

    a large faint constellation in the southern hemisphere containing most of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Wiktionary

  1. Tucananoun

    A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a toucan. It lies south of the constellations Phoenix and Grus.

  2. Etymology: Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From later tucana, a "toucan".

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  1. Tucana

    Tucana (The Toucan) is a constellation of stars in the southern sky, named after the toucan, a South American bird. It is one of twelve constellations conceived in the late sixteenth century by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman. Tucana first appeared on a 35-centimetre-diameter (14 in) celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603. French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille gave its stars Bayer designations in 1756. The constellations Tucana, Grus, Phoenix and Pavo are collectively known as the "Southern Birds". Tucana is not a prominent constellation as all of its stars are third magnitude or fainter; the brightest is Alpha Tucanae with an apparent visual magnitude of 2.87. Beta Tucanae is a star system with six member stars, while Kappa is a quadruple system. Five star systems have been found to have exoplanets to date. The constellation contains 47 Tucanae, one of the brightest globular clusters in the sky, and most of the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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  1. tucana

    Tucana is a constellation in the southern sky whose name is Latin for the toucan, a South American bird. It is one of the 88 modern constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union.

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  1. Tucana

    Tucana is a constellation of stars in the southern sky, created in the late sixteenth century. Its name is Latin for the toucan, a South American bird. This is not a prominent constellation as all of its stars are third magnitude or fainter; the brightest is Alpha Tucanae at apparent visual magnitude 2.87. The recommended three-letter abbreviation for the constellation, as adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1922, is 'Tuc'. The official constellation boundaries, as set by Eugène Delporte in 1930, are defined by a polygon of 10 segments. In the equatorial coordinate system, the right ascension coordinates of these borders lie between 22h 08.45m and 01h 24.82m, while the declination coordinates are between –56.31° and -75.35°.

Editors Contribution

  1. tucana

    きょしちょう座 in Japanese.


    Submitted by anonymous on June 17, 2019  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tucana in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tucana in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6


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