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 980→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728
1 Columba 980 2 Columba 980 3 Columba 980 4 Columba 980 5 Columba 980 6 Columba 980 7 Columba 980 8 Columba 980 9 Columba 980 10 Columba 980 11 Columba 980 12 Columba 980 13 Columba 980 14 Columba 980 15 Columba 980 16 Columba 980 17 Columba 980 18 Columba 980 19 Columba 980 20 Columba 980 21 Columba 980 22 Columba 980 23 Columba 980 24 Columba 980 25 Columba 980 26 Columba 980 27 Columba 980 28 Columba 980 1 Monoceros 980 29 April 3454 30 April 3454 1 May 3454 2 May 3454 3 May 3454 4 May 3454 5 May 3454 6 May 3454 7 May 3454 8 May 3454 9 May 3454 10 May 3454 11 May 3454 12 May 3454 13 May 3454 14 May 3454 15 May 3454 16 May 3454 17 May 3454 18 May 3454 19 May 3454 20 May 3454 21 May 3454 22 May 3454 23 May 3454 24 May 3454 25 May 3454 26 May 3454 27 May 3454 28 May 3454
MS 507666 MS 507667 MS 507668 MS 507669 MS 507670 MS 507671 MS 507672 MS 507673 MS 507674 MS 507675 MS 507676 MS 507677 MS 507678 MS 507679 MS 507680 MS 507681 MS 507682 MS 507683 MS 507684 MS 507685 MS 507686 MS 507687 MS 507688 MS 507689 MS 507690 MS 507691 MS 507692 MS 507693 MS 507694 MD 521758 MD 521759 MD 521760 MD 521761 MD 521762 MD 521763 MD 521764 MD 521765 MD 521766 MD 521767 MD 521768 MD 521769 MD 521770 MD 521771 MD 521772 MD 521773 MD 521774 MD 521775 MD 521776 MD 521777 MD 521778 MD 521779 MD 521780 MD 521781 MD 521782 MD 521783 MD 521784 MD 521785 MD 521786 MD 521787