Constellations
Columba (Col)
The Dove
Also known as dove.
6 looks for Columba
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Columba
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Dove
- IAU abbreviation
- Col
- Its stars are named
- Columbae (as in "Alpha Columbae")
- Family
- Heavenly Waters
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in February
- Centre
- Right ascension 5h 53m, declination −36° 23′
- The figure
- 5 stars joined by 4 lines
- Brightest star
- Phact, magnitude 2.64
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Phact (α Col)mag 2.64
- Wazn (β Col)mag 3.12
- δ Colmag 3.85
- ε Colmag 3.87
- η Colmag 3.96
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation