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Tucana: The Toucan
(possessive form Tucanae, abbreviation Tuc)

One of twelve southern constellations mapped by Dutch explorer Frederick de Houtman and navigator Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser in 1595-97, formed into constellations by Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius, and introduced to the world at large by Johann Bayer, in his 1603 Uranometria.


Map of Tucana
Modified version of Wikimedia Commons map by Torsten Bronger


Stars in Tucana

Other Objects of Interest
NGC 265, a 12th-magnitude open cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud (RA 00 47 11, Dec -73 28 43).
NGC 290, a 12th-magnitude open cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud (RA 00 51 15, Dec -73 09 45).