Star profile
Lambda 2 Tucanae
What is Lambda 2 Tucanae
Lambda-2 Tucanae is a yellow G-type star 222 light-years away, a solitary light in the southern constellation of the Toucan, a sky so sparsely populated that it served sixteenth-century European navigators as a reference in southern seas. The constellation itself was carved out of the unmapped austral sky by Dutch astronomers Keyser and de Houtman around 1597. The light reaching us tonight set out around 1804, when Beethoven was premiering his Third Symphony in Vienna.
Where it is and when to see it
Lambda 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 Lambda 2 Tucanae
- Constellation
- Tucana
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.45
- Distance
- 221.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 13.751° · Dec -69.527°
- Catalogue
- HIP 4293 · HD 5457
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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
- HIP 1106495.31
- Iota Tucanae5.36
- Rho Tucanae5.38
- Pi Tucanae5.50
- HIP 3775.59