Month Best Visible
November
Hemisphere Visible
Southern
Beta Tucanae is in fact a group of six stars which appear to be at least loosely bound into a system. The two brightest of these, Beta-1 Tucanae and Beta-2 Tucanae. Kappa Tucanae is a group of four stars: two binary stars. Lambda Tucanae is an optical double.
Tucana's name is Latin for the toucan, a South American bird.
