We use cookies to deliver essential features and to measure their performance. Learn more.
Home
Search Objects
Major Solar System Objects
Comets
Asteroids
Spacecrafts
Star Maps
Orbits
public  Greenwich, UK Greenwich, UK  ⓘ
TimezoneEurope/London
Sunrise: 7:53 
Transit: 11:52 
Sunset: 15:50
sunny   (Daytime)  
What's Visible Now • Tonight Timeline
Search  close
All Constellations » Tucana » 

β2 Tucanae (beta2 Tucanae)

Below the horizon.  Never rises today
Alt: -75.35°   Az: 147.38°   Direction: South-South-East

β2 Tucanae is a multiple main-sequence star of spectral class A2 in the constellation of Tucana.

β2 Tucanae visual magnitude is 4.54. Because of its moderate brightness, β2 Tucanae is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of β2 Tucanae (beta2 Tucanae) star
DSS2 image of β2 Tucanae. The red arrow shows the motion of β2 Tucanae during the next 1000 years (1.68 arcmin in Right Ascension and -0.93 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

00h 32m 41s
-62° 49’ 42”
13h 09m 30s
13h 42m 11s

J2000

00h 31m 33s
-62° 57’ 56”

Galactic Coordinates

306.78°
-54.01°

Finder Chart

loader
  Loading map...
Finder chart for β2 Tucanae (beta2 Tucanae).

Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.54
Main-sequence

0.93
A2V
8571K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where β2 Tucanae is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of β2 Tucanae. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Star System Properties

β2 Tucanae is a visual double star which can be observed with binoculars or small telescopes. The table below shows key information about the β2 Tucanae double sysyem:

4.54
4.74
0.2
27 arcsec

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

β2 Tucanae is distant 172.03 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 10 kilometers per second.

52.77
172.03
10 km/s
0.101 arcsec/y
-0.056"/y

Alternative Designations

β2 Tucanae
(beta2 Tucanae)
SAO248202
SAO248202

Visibility from Your Location

β2 Tucanae (beta2 Tucanae) is currently not visible from Greenwich, UK