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 291→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728
1 Columba 291 2 Columba 291 3 Columba 291 4 Columba 291 5 Columba 291 6 Columba 291 7 Columba 291 8 Columba 291 9 Columba 291 10 Columba 291 11 Columba 291 12 Columba 291 13 Columba 291 14 Columba 291 15 Columba 291 16 Columba 291 17 Columba 291 18 Columba 291 19 Columba 291 20 Columba 291 21 Columba 291 22 Columba 291 23 Columba 291 24 Columba 291 25 Columba 291 26 Columba 291 27 Columba 291 28 Columba 291 1 Monoceros 291 19 January 2158 20 January 2158 21 January 2158 22 January 2158 23 January 2158 24 January 2158 25 January 2158 26 January 2158 27 January 2158 28 January 2158 29 January 2158 30 January 2158 31 January 2158 1 February 2158 2 February 2158 3 February 2158 4 February 2158 5 February 2158 6 February 2158 7 February 2158 8 February 2158 9 February 2158 10 February 2158 11 February 2158 12 February 2158 13 February 2158 14 February 2158 15 February 2158 16 February 2158 17 February 2158
MS 47008 MS 47009 MS 47010 MS 47011 MS 47012 MS 47013 MS 47014 MS 47015 MS 47016 MS 47017 MS 47018 MS 47019 MS 47020 MS 47021 MS 47022 MS 47023 MS 47024 MS 47025 MS 47026 MS 47027 MS 47028 MS 47029 MS 47030 MS 47031 MS 47032 MS 47033 MS 47034 MS 47035 MS 47036 MD 48304 MD 48305 MD 48306 MD 48307 MD 48308 MD 48309 MD 48310 MD 48311 MD 48312 MD 48313 MD 48314 MD 48315 MD 48316 MD 48317 MD 48318 MD 48319 MD 48320 MD 48321 MD 48322 MD 48323 MD 48324 MD 48325 MD 48326 MD 48327 MD 48328 MD 48329 MD 48330 MD 48331 MD 48332 MD 48333