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 143→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Columba 143 2 Columba 143 3 Columba 143 4 Columba 143 5 Columba 143 6 Columba 143 7 Columba 143 8 Columba 143 9 Columba 143 10 Columba 143 11 Columba 143 12 Columba 143 13 Columba 143 14 Columba 143 15 Columba 143 16 Columba 143 17 Columba 143 18 Columba 143 19 Columba 143 20 Columba 143 21 Columba 143 22 Columba 143 23 Columba 143 24 Columba 143 25 Columba 143 26 Columba 143 27 Columba 143 28 Columba 143 1 Monoceros 143 9 August 1879 10 August 1879 11 August 1879 12 August 1879 13 August 1879 14 August 1879 15 August 1879 16 August 1879 17 August 1879 18 August 1879 19 August 1879 20 August 1879 21 August 1879 22 August 1879 23 August 1879 24 August 1879 25 August 1879 26 August 1879 27 August 1879 28 August 1879 29 August 1879 30 August 1879 31 August 1879 1 September 1879 2 September 1879 3 September 1879 4 September 1879 5 September 1879 6 September 1879 7 September 1879
MS -51944 MS -51943 MS -51942 MS -51941 MS -51940 MS -51939 MS -51938 MS -51937 MS -51936 MS -51935 MS -51934 MS -51933 MS -51932 MS -51931 MS -51930 MS -51929 MS -51928 MS -51927 MS -51926 MS -51925 MS -51924 MS -51923 MS -51922 MS -51921 MS -51920 MS -51919 MS -51918 MS -51917 MS -51916 MD -53397 MD -53396 MD -53395 MD -53394 MD -53393 MD -53392 MD -53391 MD -53390 MD -53389 MD -53388 MD -53387 MD -53386 MD -53385 MD -53384 MD -53383 MD -53382 MD -53381 MD -53380 MD -53379 MD -53378 MD -53377 MD -53376 MD -53375 MD -53374 MD -53373 MD -53372 MD -53371 MD -53370 MD -53369 MD -53368