Figures / Braeai
Braeai
“brow, o —”
brae “brow” + -ai “o —”
Braeai (“brow, o —”) is a 10-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 16° of the northern sky. Its brightest star is Sableath, magnitude 1.50.
The story
The Korren hold that Braeai was an unbeliever who fell asleep during an eclipse and woke in the wrong century, and was nailed to the cold part of the year. It is a figure of the spring, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Sableath, the red ember, is the heart; the remaining 9 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year still leave a cup out when it rises.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 17.02 h
- Declination
- +12.69°
- Angular span
- 16.3°
- Stars in the figure
- 10
- Best season
- spring (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Sableath“deep-dark, made of” | 1.50 | M0 II | 13 pc | 3,657 K |
| bhor | Eskien“ice, belonging to” | 2.45 | B6 V | 79 pc | 16,937 K |
| ciel | Maredreaden“hand-fear, the many” | 2.71 | M1 I | 179 pc | 3,543 K |
| dor | Veyris“turning, little” | 3.81 | G1 III | 71 pc | 5,941 K |
| enn | Risacynune“morning-white, place of” | 3.83 | B8 I | 417 pc | 13,136 K |
| fael | Atheherdis“father-shepherd, little” | 3.92 | G5 III | 52 pc | 5,595 K |
| gyre | Sangesoona“blood-soon, she who is” | 4.06 | K7 III | 239 pc | 4,095 K |
| hesp | Nenath“rain, made of” | 4.14 | B5 I | 672 pc | 17,802 K |
| ir | Esketh“ice, of the” | 4.15 | A7 V | 31 pc | 8,114 K |
| joth | KS 1560 | 4.21 | K2 I | 406 pc | 4,854 K |
How this was made
Braeai was not designed. It was grown outward from Sableath, 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.