Columba Observation

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The constellation I chose for this assignment is Columba, also known as "the dove". I chose this constellation because the dove has been a symbol of peace for centuries, and we all need a little more peace in our lives, don't we? Anyway, Columba came into being when Petrus Plancius, the Dutch astronomer, wanted to differentiate loose stars from Canis Major in 1592.

The group of stars was meant to represent the dove that brought an olive branch to Noah in the popular Christian Bible story "Noah's Ark". This signaled to Noah that dry land was nearby, meaning that the great flood was subsiding. For this reason, the constellation's original name was Columba Noachi, meaning "Noah's Dove".

Though this story is widely accepted as the reason the

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