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 -795→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Columba -795 2 Columba -795 3 Columba -795 4 Columba -795 5 Columba -795 6 Columba -795 7 Columba -795 8 Columba -795 9 Columba -795 10 Columba -795 11 Columba -795 12 Columba -795 13 Columba -795 14 Columba -795 15 Columba -795 16 Columba -795 17 Columba -795 18 Columba -795 19 Columba -795 20 Columba -795 21 Columba -795 22 Columba -795 23 Columba -795 24 Columba -795 25 Columba -795 26 Columba -795 27 Columba -795 28 Columba -795 2 Vulpecula -794 8 December 0114 9 December 0114 10 December 0114 11 December 0114 12 December 0114 13 December 0114 14 December 0114 15 December 0114 16 December 0114 17 December 0114 18 December 0114 19 December 0114 20 December 0114 21 December 0114 22 December 0114 23 December 0114 24 December 0114 25 December 0114 26 December 0114 27 December 0114 28 December 0114 29 December 0114 30 December 0114 31 December 0114 1 January 0115 2 January 0115 3 January 0115 4 January 0115 5 January 0115
MS -679056 MS -679057 MS -679058 MS -679059 MS -679060 MS -679061 MS -679062 MS -679063 MS -679064 MS -679065 MS -679066 MS -679067 MS -679068 MS -679069 MS -679070 MS -679071 MS -679072 MS -679073 MS -679074 MS -679075 MS -679076 MS -679077 MS -679078 MS -679079 MS -679080 MS -679081 MS -679082 MS -679083 MS -679029 MD -697929 MD -697928 MD -697927 MD -697926 MD -697925 MD -697924 MD -697923 MD -697922 MD -697921 MD -697920 MD -697919 MD -697918 MD -697917 MD -697916 MD -697915 MD -697914 MD -697913 MD -697912 MD -697911 MD -697910 MD -697909 MD -697908 MD -697907 MD -697906 MD -697905 MD -697904 MD -697903 MD -697902 MD -697901