The modern constellation
Columba
Columba or Colmcille; gd, Calum Cille; gv, Colum Keeilley; non, Kolban or at least partly reinterpreted as (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is toda ...
lies across two of the quadrants, symbolized by the
White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, ''Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ'') and the
Vermillion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, ''Nán Fāng Zhū Què''), that divide the sky in traditional
Chinese uranography.
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 天鴿座 (''tiān gē zuò''), meaning "the heaven dove constellation".
Stars
The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Columba area consists of :
See also
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Traditional Chinese star names
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Chinese constellations
Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" (Chinese ''xīng guān'').
The Chinese asterisms are generally smaller than the constellations of Hellenistic t ...
References
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External links
Columba – Chinese associations香港太空館https://web.archive.org/web/20120813070951/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Space/Research/c_index.htm 研究資源]
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中國星區、星官及星名英譯表*
台灣自然科學博物館https://web.archive.org/web/20100629152022/http://aeea.nmns.edu.tw/ 天文教育資訊網]
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Astronomy in China
Columba (constellation)