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 233→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728
1 Columba 233 2 Columba 233 3 Columba 233 4 Columba 233 5 Columba 233 6 Columba 233 7 Columba 233 8 Columba 233 9 Columba 233 10 Columba 233 11 Columba 233 12 Columba 233 13 Columba 233 14 Columba 233 15 Columba 233 16 Columba 233 17 Columba 233 18 Columba 233 19 Columba 233 20 Columba 233 21 Columba 233 22 Columba 233 23 Columba 233 24 Columba 233 25 Columba 233 26 Columba 233 27 Columba 233 28 Columba 233 1 Monoceros 233 5 December 2048 6 December 2048 7 December 2048 8 December 2048 9 December 2048 10 December 2048 11 December 2048 12 December 2048 13 December 2048 14 December 2048 15 December 2048 16 December 2048 17 December 2048 18 December 2048 19 December 2048 20 December 2048 21 December 2048 22 December 2048 23 December 2048 24 December 2048 25 December 2048 26 December 2048 27 December 2048 28 December 2048 29 December 2048 30 December 2048 31 December 2048 1 January 2049 2 January 2049
MS 8229 MS 8230 MS 8231 MS 8232 MS 8233 MS 8234 MS 8235 MS 8236 MS 8237 MS 8238 MS 8239 MS 8240 MS 8241 MS 8242 MS 8243 MS 8244 MS 8245 MS 8246 MS 8247 MS 8248 MS 8249 MS 8250 MS 8251 MS 8252 MS 8253 MS 8254 MS 8255 MS 8256 MS 8257 MD 8448 MD 8449 MD 8450 MD 8451 MD 8452 MD 8453 MD 8454 MD 8455 MD 8456 MD 8457 MD 8458 MD 8459 MD 8460 MD 8461 MD 8462 MD 8463 MD 8464 MD 8465 MD 8466 MD 8467 MD 8468 MD 8469 MD 8470 MD 8471 MD 8472 MD 8473 MD 8474 MD 8475 MD 8476