Tucana

Tucuna is also an alternate name for the Tucano language.

Tucana (Latin for Toucan) is a southern constellation. The constellation was one of twelve constellations created by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597, and it first appeared in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603.

At the southern end of Tucana lies the Small Magellanic Cloud. The globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) is also located within its boundaries as is the Tucana Dwarf Galaxy, which was discovered in 1990.

Since it was invented in the 17th century, there is no earlier mythology associated with it.

BD	Names and other designations	Mag.	Ly away
α	Alpha Tucanae	2.87	199
γ	Gamma Tucanae	3.99	71.8
ζ	Zeta Tucanae	4.23	28.03
κ	Kappa Tucanae	4.25	66.6
β¹	Beta-1 Tucanae	4.36	140
ε	Epsilon Tucanae	4.49	374
δ	Delta Tucanae	4.51	267
β²	Beta-2 Tucanae	4.53	140
ν	Nu Tucanae	4.91	273
η	Eta Tucanae	5.00	159
β³	Beta-3 Tucanae	5.07	152
ι	Iota Tucanae	5.36	279
ρ	Rho Tucanae	5.38	133
λ²	Lambda-2 Tucanae	5.45	210
π	Pi Tucanae	5.50	306
θ	Theta Tucanae	6.11	490
λ¹	Lambda-1 Tucanae	6.67	200

Source: The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed., The Hipparcos Catalogue, ESA SP-1200

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