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 -282→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Columba -282 2 Columba -282 3 Columba -282 4 Columba -282 5 Columba -282 6 Columba -282 7 Columba -282 8 Columba -282 9 Columba -282 10 Columba -282 11 Columba -282 12 Columba -282 13 Columba -282 14 Columba -282 15 Columba -282 16 Columba -282 17 Columba -282 18 Columba -282 19 Columba -282 20 Columba -282 21 Columba -282 22 Columba -282 23 Columba -282 24 Columba -282 25 Columba -282 26 Columba -282 27 Columba -282 28 Columba -282 2 Vulpecula -281 3 February 1080 4 February 1080 5 February 1080 6 February 1080 7 February 1080 8 February 1080 9 February 1080 10 February 1080 11 February 1080 12 February 1080 13 February 1080 14 February 1080 15 February 1080 16 February 1080 17 February 1080 18 February 1080 19 February 1080 20 February 1080 21 February 1080 22 February 1080 23 February 1080 24 February 1080 25 February 1080 26 February 1080 27 February 1080 28 February 1080 29 February 1080 1 March 1080 2 March 1080
MS -336068 MS -336069 MS -336070 MS -336071 MS -336072 MS -336073 MS -336074 MS -336075 MS -336076 MS -336077 MS -336078 MS -336079 MS -336080 MS -336081 MS -336082 MS -336083 MS -336084 MS -336085 MS -336086 MS -336087 MS -336088 MS -336089 MS -336090 MS -336091 MS -336092 MS -336093 MS -336094 MS -336095 MS -336041 MD -345413 MD -345412 MD -345411 MD -345410 MD -345409 MD -345408 MD -345407 MD -345406 MD -345405 MD -345404 MD -345403 MD -345402 MD -345401 MD -345400 MD -345399 MD -345398 MD -345397 MD -345396 MD -345395 MD -345394 MD -345393 MD -345392 MD -345391 MD -345390 MD -345389 MD -345388 MD -345387 MD -345386 MD -345385