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name: β Tuc
constellation: Tuc
created_by: editor.cs
created_date: 2022-01-21 17:00:00
updated_by: skybber
updated_date: 2022-04-24 07:42:05.476646
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not only an optical but also a physical binary star. Two almost equally bright components of 4.4mag and 4.5mag are separated by 27.1", so we can distinguish them in a good binocular. Both are still double, which we only notice in binoculars. At a distance of 9.3' to the southeast, we can additionally observe a third component of 5.1mag brightness, which is actually also a close binary.