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 -359→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Columba -359 2 Columba -359 3 Columba -359 4 Columba -359 5 Columba -359 6 Columba -359 7 Columba -359 8 Columba -359 9 Columba -359 10 Columba -359 11 Columba -359 12 Columba -359 13 Columba -359 14 Columba -359 15 Columba -359 16 Columba -359 17 Columba -359 18 Columba -359 19 Columba -359 20 Columba -359 21 Columba -359 22 Columba -359 23 Columba -359 24 Columba -359 25 Columba -359 26 Columba -359 27 Columba -359 28 Columba -359 2 Vulpecula -358 24 March 0935 25 March 0935 26 March 0935 27 March 0935 28 March 0935 29 March 0935 30 March 0935 31 March 0935 1 April 0935 2 April 0935 3 April 0935 4 April 0935 5 April 0935 6 April 0935 7 April 0935 8 April 0935 9 April 0935 10 April 0935 11 April 0935 12 April 0935 13 April 0935 14 April 0935 15 April 0935 16 April 0935 17 April 0935 18 April 0935 19 April 0935 20 April 0935 21 April 0935
MS -387549 MS -387550 MS -387551 MS -387552 MS -387553 MS -387554 MS -387555 MS -387556 MS -387557 MS -387558 MS -387559 MS -387560 MS -387561 MS -387562 MS -387563 MS -387564 MS -387565 MS -387566 MS -387567 MS -387568 MS -387569 MS -387570 MS -387571 MS -387572 MS -387573 MS -387574 MS -387575 MS -387576 MS -387522 MD -398324 MD -398323 MD -398322 MD -398321 MD -398320 MD -398319 MD -398318 MD -398317 MD -398316 MD -398315 MD -398314 MD -398313 MD -398312 MD -398311 MD -398310 MD -398309 MD -398308 MD -398307 MD -398306 MD -398305 MD -398304 MD -398303 MD -398302 MD -398301 MD -398300 MD -398299 MD -398298 MD -398297 MD -398296