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 -799→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Columba -799 2 Columba -799 3 Columba -799 4 Columba -799 5 Columba -799 6 Columba -799 7 Columba -799 8 Columba -799 9 Columba -799 10 Columba -799 11 Columba -799 12 Columba -799 13 Columba -799 14 Columba -799 15 Columba -799 16 Columba -799 17 Columba -799 18 Columba -799 19 Columba -799 20 Columba -799 21 Columba -799 22 Columba -799 23 Columba -799 24 Columba -799 25 Columba -799 26 Columba -799 27 Columba -799 28 Columba -799 2 Vulpecula -798 31 May 0107 1 June 0107 2 June 0107 3 June 0107 4 June 0107 5 June 0107 6 June 0107 7 June 0107 8 June 0107 9 June 0107 10 June 0107 11 June 0107 12 June 0107 13 June 0107 14 June 0107 15 June 0107 16 June 0107 17 June 0107 18 June 0107 19 June 0107 20 June 0107 21 June 0107 22 June 0107 23 June 0107 24 June 0107 25 June 0107 26 June 0107 27 June 0107 28 June 0107
MS -681730 MS -681731 MS -681732 MS -681733 MS -681734 MS -681735 MS -681736 MS -681737 MS -681738 MS -681739 MS -681740 MS -681741 MS -681742 MS -681743 MS -681744 MS -681745 MS -681746 MS -681747 MS -681748 MS -681749 MS -681750 MS -681751 MS -681752 MS -681753 MS -681754 MS -681755 MS -681756 MS -681757 MS -681703 MD -700677 MD -700676 MD -700675 MD -700674 MD -700673 MD -700672 MD -700671 MD -700670 MD -700669 MD -700668 MD -700667 MD -700666 MD -700665 MD -700664 MD -700663 MD -700662 MD -700661 MD -700660 MD -700659 MD -700658 MD -700657 MD -700656 MD -700655 MD -700654 MD -700653 MD -700652 MD -700651 MD -700650 MD -700649