Tucana in Chinese astronomy


The modern constellation Tucana is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts. Based on the work of Xu Guangqi and the German Jesuit missionary Johann Adam Schall von Bell in the late Ming Dynasty, this constellation has been classified as one of the 23 Southern Asterisms under the name Crane and Bird's Beak.
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 杜鵑座, meaning "the cuckoo constellation".

Stars

The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Tucana area consists of :
Four SymbolsMansion RomanizationTranslationAsterisms RomanizationTranslationWestern star nameChinese star nameRomanizationTranslation
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鳥喙NiǎohuìBird's Beak----
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鳥喙NiǎohuìBird's Beakα Tuc鳥喙一Niǎohuìyī1st star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鳥喙NiǎohuìBird's Beakδ Tuc鳥喙二Niǎohuìèr2nd star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鳥喙NiǎohuìBird's BeakHD 224361鳥喙三Niǎohuìsān3rd star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鳥喙NiǎohuìBird's Beakβ1 Tuc鳥喙四Niǎohuìsì4th star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鳥喙NiǎohuìBird's Beakρ Tuc鳥喙五Niǎohuìwǔ5th star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鳥喙NiǎohuìBird's Beakζ Tuc鳥喙六Niǎohuìliù6th star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鳥喙NiǎohuìBird's Beakε Tuc鳥喙七Niǎohuìqī7th star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鳥喙NiǎohuìBird's Beakη Tuc鳥喙增一Niǎohuìzēngyī1st additional star
-近南極星區 Jìnnánjíxīngōu The Southern Asterisms 鶴HèCraneγ Tuc鶴五Hèwǔ5th star