Heliocodex

Meet a star / Constellations

Tucana

46 stars in Tucana can be seen by eye from a dark place. 4 have names of their own. The rest go by a Greek letter, a number, or their place in a catalogue. Here is every one, brightest first.

Its stars

49 in all. The dot shows each star's colour.

  1. Lang-ExsterEasy to see, 200 light years
  2. Gamma TucanaeSeen away from bright lights, 75 light years
  3. Zeta TucanaeSeen away from bright lights, 28 light years
  4. Kappa TucanaeSeen away from bright lights, 68 light years
  5. Beta-1 TucanaeSeen away from bright lights, 140 light years
  6. Epsilon TucanaeSeen away from bright lights, 370 light years
  7. Delta TucanaeSeen away from bright lights, 250 light years
  8. Beta-2 TucanaeSeen away from bright lights, 170 light years
  9. Nu TucanaeSeen away from bright lights, 290 light years
  10. Eta TucanaeSeen away from bright lights, 150 light years
  11. Beta-3 TucanaeJust seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  12. HIP 110649Just seen from a dark place, 67 light years
  13. Iota TucanaeJust seen from a dark place, 300 light years
  14. Rho TucanaeJust seen from a dark place, 130 light years
  15. Lambda-2 TucanaeJust seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  16. Pi TucanaeJust seen from a dark place, 320 light years
  17. HIP 377Just seen from a dark place, 570 light years
  18. HIP 115620Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  19. HIP 115769Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  20. HIP 114948Just seen from a dark place, 67 light years
  21. HIP 115908Just seen from a dark place, 390 light years
  22. HIP 117088Just seen from a dark place, 730 light years
  23. HIP 4200Just seen from a dark place, 710 light years
  24. HIP 3170Just seen from a dark place, 81 light years
  25. HIP 118092Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  26. HIP 111967Just seen from a dark place, 850 light years
  27. HIP 3352Just seen from a dark place, 230 light years
  28. A companion of Beta-3 TucanaeJust seen from a dark place, 68 light years
  29. HIP 3489Just seen from a dark place, 290 light years
  30. HIP 117105Just seen from a dark place, 150 light years
  31. HIP 115433Just seen from a dark place, 850 light years
  32. Theta TucanaeJust seen from a dark place, 420 light years
  33. HIP 114699Just seen from a dark place, 96 light years
  34. HIP 112924Just seen from a dark place, 410 light years
  35. HIP 111548Just seen from a dark place, 220 light years
  36. HIP 4563Just seen from a dark place, 560 light years
  37. HIP 5992Just seen from a dark place, 310 light years
  38. HIP 4879Just seen from a dark place, 870 light years
  39. HIP 112259Just seen from a dark place, 480 light years
  40. HIP 798Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  41. HIP 112603Just seen from a dark place, 430 light years
  42. HIP 110311Just seen from a dark place, 1,200 light years
  43. HIP 2889Just seen from a dark place, 690 light years
  44. HIP 115756Just seen from a dark place, 970 light years
  45. HIP 112895Just seen from a dark place, 470 light years
  46. HIP 112533Just seen from a dark place, 740 light years
  47. PoeravaNeeds a telescope, 180 light years
  48. EmiwNeeds a telescope, 120 light years
  49. DanfengNeeds a telescope, 86 light years

Where this comes from

The stars and their measurements are from the HYG star database, version 4.4, by David Nash, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Which constellation a star belongs to follows the boundaries drawn by the International Astronomical Union, as that database gives them. To see what is up tonight, open the sky map.