IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Columba
The Dove
OriginPlancius
AbbreviationCol
GenitiveColumbae
Pronunciation/kəˈlʌmbə/ genitive /kəˈlʌmbiː/
cuh-LUM-buh
LocationSouthern Hemisphere
Primary StarPhact (α Col)
Right Ascention 5h 40m Declination -34° 04'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.163 h (9.8 min)
Sixteenth-century Dutch theologian and mapmaker Petrus Plancius formed Columba, “The Dove”, to represent the Dove sent out by Noah from the Ark to find dry land. The dove came back with an olive branch held in its beak, a sign that the great flood was subsiding.
www.underthesky.com
Columba as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Columba -131→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Columba -131 2 Columba -131 3 Columba -131 4 Columba -131 5 Columba -131 6 Columba -131 7 Columba -131 8 Columba -131 9 Columba -131 10 Columba -131 11 Columba -131 12 Columba -131 13 Columba -131 14 Columba -131 15 Columba -131 16 Columba -131 17 Columba -131 18 Columba -131 19 Columba -131 20 Columba -131 21 Columba -131 22 Columba -131 23 Columba -131 24 Columba -131 25 Columba -131 26 Columba -131 27 Columba -131 28 Columba -131 3 Vulpecula -130 6 March 1364 7 March 1364 8 March 1364 9 March 1364 10 March 1364 11 March 1364 12 March 1364 13 March 1364 14 March 1364 15 March 1364 16 March 1364 17 March 1364 18 March 1364 19 March 1364 20 March 1364 21 March 1364 22 March 1364 23 March 1364 24 March 1364 25 March 1364 26 March 1364 27 March 1364 28 March 1364 29 March 1364 30 March 1364 31 March 1364 1 April 1364 2 April 1364 3 April 1364
MS -235111 MS -235112 MS -235113 MS -235114 MS -235115 MS -235116 MS -235117 MS -235118 MS -235119 MS -235120 MS -235121 MS -235122 MS -235123 MS -235124 MS -235125 MS -235126 MS -235127 MS -235128 MS -235129 MS -235130 MS -235131 MS -235132 MS -235133 MS -235134 MS -235135 MS -235136 MS -235137 MS -235138 MS -235084 MD -241652 MD -241651 MD -241650 MD -241649 MD -241648 MD -241647 MD -241646 MD -241645 MD -241644 MD -241643 MD -241642 MD -241641 MD -241640 MD -241639 MD -241638 MD -241637 MD -241636 MD -241635 MD -241634 MD -241633 MD -241632 MD -241631 MD -241630 MD -241629 MD -241628 MD -241627 MD -241626 MD -241625 MD -241624