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 1001→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Columba 1001 2 Columba 1001 3 Columba 1001 4 Columba 1001 5 Columba 1001 6 Columba 1001 7 Columba 1001 8 Columba 1001 9 Columba 1001 10 Columba 1001 11 Columba 1001 12 Columba 1001 13 Columba 1001 14 Columba 1001 15 Columba 1001 16 Columba 1001 17 Columba 1001 18 Columba 1001 19 Columba 1001 20 Columba 1001 21 Columba 1001 22 Columba 1001 23 Columba 1001 24 Columba 1001 25 Columba 1001 26 Columba 1001 27 Columba 1001 28 Columba 1001 1 Monoceros 1001 31 October 3493 1 November 3493 2 November 3493 3 November 3493 4 November 3493 5 November 3493 6 November 3493 7 November 3493 8 November 3493 9 November 3493 10 November 3493 11 November 3493 12 November 3493 13 November 3493 14 November 3493 15 November 3493 16 November 3493 17 November 3493 18 November 3493 19 November 3493 20 November 3493 21 November 3493 22 November 3493 23 November 3493 24 November 3493 25 November 3493 26 November 3493 27 November 3493 28 November 3493 29 November 3493
MS 521706 MS 521707 MS 521708 MS 521709 MS 521710 MS 521711 MS 521712 MS 521713 MS 521714 MS 521715 MS 521716 MS 521717 MS 521718 MS 521719 MS 521720 MS 521721 MS 521722 MS 521723 MS 521724 MS 521725 MS 521726 MS 521727 MS 521728 MS 521729 MS 521730 MS 521731 MS 521732 MS 521733 MS 521734 MD 536188 MD 536189 MD 536190 MD 536191 MD 536192 MD 536193 MD 536194 MD 536195 MD 536196 MD 536197 MD 536198 MD 536199 MD 536200 MD 536201 MD 536202 MD 536203 MD 536204 MD 536205 MD 536206 MD 536207 MD 536208 MD 536209 MD 536210 MD 536211 MD 536212 MD 536213 MD 536214 MD 536215 MD 536216 MD 536217