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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.
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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.
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