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 904→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728
1 Columba 904 2 Columba 904 3 Columba 904 4 Columba 904 5 Columba 904 6 Columba 904 7 Columba 904 8 Columba 904 9 Columba 904 10 Columba 904 11 Columba 904 12 Columba 904 13 Columba 904 14 Columba 904 15 Columba 904 16 Columba 904 17 Columba 904 18 Columba 904 19 Columba 904 20 Columba 904 21 Columba 904 22 Columba 904 23 Columba 904 24 Columba 904 25 Columba 904 26 Columba 904 27 Columba 904 28 Columba 904 1 Monoceros 904 4 May 3311 5 May 3311 6 May 3311 7 May 3311 8 May 3311 9 May 3311 10 May 3311 11 May 3311 12 May 3311 13 May 3311 14 May 3311 15 May 3311 16 May 3311 17 May 3311 18 May 3311 19 May 3311 20 May 3311 21 May 3311 22 May 3311 23 May 3311 24 May 3311 25 May 3311 26 May 3311 27 May 3311 28 May 3311 29 May 3311 30 May 3311 31 May 3311 1 June 3311 2 June 3311
MS 456853 MS 456854 MS 456855 MS 456856 MS 456857 MS 456858 MS 456859 MS 456860 MS 456861 MS 456862 MS 456863 MS 456864 MS 456865 MS 456866 MS 456867 MS 456868 MS 456869 MS 456870 MS 456871 MS 456872 MS 456873 MS 456874 MS 456875 MS 456876 MS 456877 MS 456878 MS 456879 MS 456880 MS 456881 MD 469533 MD 469534 MD 469535 MD 469536 MD 469537 MD 469538 MD 469539 MD 469540 MD 469541 MD 469542 MD 469543 MD 469544 MD 469545 MD 469546 MD 469547 MD 469548 MD 469549 MD 469550 MD 469551 MD 469552 MD 469553 MD 469554 MD 469555 MD 469556 MD 469557 MD 469558 MD 469559 MD 469560 MD 469561 MD 469562