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Athemouris
“father-dusk, little”
ath “father” + mour “dusk” + -is “little”
Athemouris (“father-dusk, little”) is a 7-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 16° of the far northern sky. Its brightest star is Pyre, magnitude 1.75.
The story
The Mornen hold that Athemouris was a surveyor of borders who sold the same shadow to eleven buyers, and is still counting, and the counting is what you see. North of 37° it never sets, which is taken as evidence that the sentence has not ended. Pyre, the amber eye, is the hand; the remaining 6 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year settle debts on the night it first clears the roofline.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 7.40 h
- Declination
- +52.96°
- Angular span
- 15.7°
- Stars in the figure
- 7
- Best season
- winter (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- north of 37° latitude, where it never sets
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Pyre“ash-heap” | 1.75 | K5 I | 145 pc | 4,305 K |
| bhor | Exilys“exile, the last” | 2.87 | K5 III | 33 pc | 4,296 K |
| ciel | Braephethol“bridge-flare, great” | 3.38 | A8 IV | 18 pc | 7,888 K |
| dor | Exilebraeath“exile-brow, made of” | 3.70 | K3 II | 36 pc | 4,627 K |
| enn | Anasmidune“mother-forge, place of” | 3.95 | F7 II | 47 pc | 6,357 K |
| fael | Sangedunar“blood-hill, one who” | 4.02 | K7 I | 664 pc | 4,003 K |
| gyre | Sibbol“sister, great” | 4.07 | K3 I | 685 pc | 4,688 K |
How this was made
Athemouris was not designed. It was grown outward from Pyre, the brightest star in this part of the sky that had not already been claimed by another figure, absorbing near neighbours until it ran out of them — which is, near enough, how the constellations of the real sky came about. Its name is Ilmenic, an invented agglutinative language: every name on this site decomposes into morphemes and can be translated.