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Tucana

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 2, 2015 by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:02, 17 May 2015 (UTC)



Tucana is a constellation of stars in the southern sky, named after the toucan, a South American bird. It is one of twelve constellations conceived in the late sixteenth century by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman. Tucana first appeared on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603. French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille gave its stars Bayer designations in 1756. Tucana is not a prominent constellation as all of its stars are third magnitude or fainter; the brightest is Alpha Tucanae with an apparent visual magnitude of 2.87. Beta Tucanae is a star system with six member stars, while Kappa is a quadruple system. Five star systems have been found to have exoplanets to date. The constellation contains 47 Tucanae (pictured), one of the brightest globular clusters in the sky, and most of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Caelum, 23 April 2015
 * Main editors: Casliber
 * Promoted: 27 February 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: Break up some film/TV ones..?
 * Support as nominator. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:46, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Should have some more prose. This blurb is under 900 characters in length. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:35, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok added a sentence. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:06, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Phew! Glad we averted that certain catastrophe. Support in any case—astronomy on the main page is always nice, and this is an excellent article. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 17:42, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Support: another in a nice series of constellation articles. Praemonitus (talk) 21:51, 15 May 2015 (UTC)