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 -800→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Columba -800 2 Columba -800 3 Columba -800 4 Columba -800 5 Columba -800 6 Columba -800 7 Columba -800 8 Columba -800 9 Columba -800 10 Columba -800 11 Columba -800 12 Columba -800 13 Columba -800 14 Columba -800 15 Columba -800 16 Columba -800 17 Columba -800 18 Columba -800 19 Columba -800 20 Columba -800 21 Columba -800 22 Columba -800 23 Columba -800 24 Columba -800 25 Columba -800 26 Columba -800 27 Columba -800 28 Columba -800 3 Vulpecula -799 12 July 0105 13 July 0105 14 July 0105 15 July 0105 16 July 0105 17 July 0105 18 July 0105 19 July 0105 20 July 0105 21 July 0105 22 July 0105 23 July 0105 24 July 0105 25 July 0105 26 July 0105 27 July 0105 28 July 0105 29 July 0105 30 July 0105 31 July 0105 1 August 0105 2 August 0105 3 August 0105 4 August 0105 5 August 0105 6 August 0105 7 August 0105 8 August 0105 9 August 0105
MS -682399 MS -682400 MS -682401 MS -682402 MS -682403 MS -682404 MS -682405 MS -682406 MS -682407 MS -682408 MS -682409 MS -682410 MS -682411 MS -682412 MS -682413 MS -682414 MS -682415 MS -682416 MS -682417 MS -682418 MS -682419 MS -682420 MS -682421 MS -682422 MS -682423 MS -682424 MS -682425 MS -682426 MS -682372 MD -701365 MD -701364 MD -701363 MD -701362 MD -701361 MD -701360 MD -701359 MD -701358 MD -701357 MD -701356 MD -701355 MD -701354 MD -701353 MD -701352 MD -701351 MD -701350 MD -701349 MD -701348 MD -701347 MD -701346 MD -701345 MD -701344 MD -701343 MD -701342 MD -701341 MD -701340 MD -701339 MD -701338 MD -701337