Tucana

Tucana · — · Tucana

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Tucana sits at right ascension 23.5h, declination -63°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

The names

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Name	Language	Meaning	Register
कारंडव kāraṇḍava	Hindi Pan-Hindi (national print)	the duck The book's भारतीय नाम for the constellation in its complete 88-constellation concordance. Muley himself notes (p. ~16) that uniform Indian names across languages were still to be settled — the set is part report of circulating usage, part proposal.	vernacular

Gunakar Muley, Akash Darshan (New Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1993), Appendix 4, 'Tara-mandal suchi', pp. 344-347 link