Zeta Tucanae

Zeta Tucanae

Factual

Zeta Tucanae is a yellow star, F8 or G0, similar to our sun but slightly brighter and perhaps younger. It may have an unseen companion, as yet unconfirmed. It is 28.0 light years from Sol, 25.5 ly from Alpha Centauri, and 17.2 ly from Epsilon Indi. The star's habitable zone is centered at a radius of 1.14 AU, giving a body there an orbital period (or year) of about 15 Earth months.

Fictional

Marten and Hannibal Carson are reported, in The Chara Talisman, to have conducted an archeological dig on Zeta Tucanae III prior to the events of that novel. It would thus be a planet orbiting Zeta Tucanae in it's habitable zone, implying two other planets closer (with possibly more, not mentioned, further out). It is not stated whether the indigenous species is still around, but if so they are presumably still at stone-age technology levels, given the lack of information to the contrary.