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 -262→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Columba -262 2 Columba -262 3 Columba -262 4 Columba -262 5 Columba -262 6 Columba -262 7 Columba -262 8 Columba -262 9 Columba -262 10 Columba -262 11 Columba -262 12 Columba -262 13 Columba -262 14 Columba -262 15 Columba -262 16 Columba -262 17 Columba -262 18 Columba -262 19 Columba -262 20 Columba -262 21 Columba -262 22 Columba -262 23 Columba -262 24 Columba -262 25 Columba -262 26 Columba -262 27 Columba -262 28 Columba -262 2 Vulpecula -261 20 September 1117 21 September 1117 22 September 1117 23 September 1117 24 September 1117 25 September 1117 26 September 1117 27 September 1117 28 September 1117 29 September 1117 30 September 1117 1 October 1117 2 October 1117 3 October 1117 4 October 1117 5 October 1117 6 October 1117 7 October 1117 8 October 1117 9 October 1117 10 October 1117 11 October 1117 12 October 1117 13 October 1117 14 October 1117 15 October 1117 16 October 1117 17 October 1117 18 October 1117
MS -322696 MS -322697 MS -322698 MS -322699 MS -322700 MS -322701 MS -322702 MS -322703 MS -322704 MS -322705 MS -322706 MS -322707 MS -322708 MS -322709 MS -322710 MS -322711 MS -322712 MS -322713 MS -322714 MS -322715 MS -322716 MS -322717 MS -322718 MS -322719 MS -322720 MS -322721 MS -322722 MS -322723 MS -322669 MD -331670 MD -331669 MD -331668 MD -331667 MD -331666 MD -331665 MD -331664 MD -331663 MD -331662 MD -331661 MD -331660 MD -331659 MD -331658 MD -331657 MD -331656 MD -331655 MD -331654 MD -331653 MD -331652 MD -331651 MD -331650 MD -331649 MD -331648 MD -331647 MD -331646 MD -331645 MD -331644 MD -331643 MD -331642