Constellations · Constellation · Tucanae · Tuc
Constellation
Tucana
The toucan, a Dutch navigators’ bird, perched with the Small Magellanic Cloud and a glorious globular cluster in its beak.
- Genitive
- Tucanae
- Area
- 295 square degrees · 48th of 88
- Brightest star
- Lang-Exster · magnitude 2.87
- Naked-eye stars
- 46 brighter than magnitude 6.5
- Highest at midnight
- early September
Look for
47 Tucanae looks like a fuzzy star beside the Small Magellanic Cloud — it is the second-brightest globular cluster in the sky.