Star profile
Beta 2 Tucanae
What is Beta 2 Tucanae
Beta2 Tucanae is one of the components of the celebrated Beta Tucanae multiple system, one of the finest stellar groupings of the southern sky when seen through a good instrument. This white A-type star lies some 168 light-years away, part of a cosmic portrait in which several suns share the same gravitational bond.
Where it is and when to see it
Beta 2 Tucanae lies in the southern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is August: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for Beta 2 Tucanae
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.53
- Distance
- 168.5 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 7.889° · Dec -62.966°
- Catalogue
- HIP 2487 · HD 2885
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Other stars in Tucana
Tucana has 28 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Alpha Tucanae2.87
- Gamma Tucanae3.99
- Zeta Tucanae4.23
- Beta 1 Tucanae4.36
- Epsilon Tucanae4.49
- Delta Tucanae4.51
- Nu Tucanae4.91
- Eta Tucanae5.00