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Braerisa
“bridge-morning”
brae “bridge” + risa “morning”
Braerisa (“bridge-morning”) is a 9-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 42° of the far southern sky. Its brightest star is Aurien, magnitude 3.00.
The story
The Thiren hold that Braerisa was a midwife who stole the hour before dawn and could not give it back, and was let go, which was the worse sentence. It is unknown in the northern registers; the songs that mention it were all collected south of the line. Aurien, the cold lamp, is the hand; the remaining 8 stars are counted sunwise. Those who keep the old year count its stars aloud and always stop one short.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 12.38 h
- Declination
- -73.78°
- Angular span
- 41.6°
- Stars in the figure
- 9
- Best season
- spring (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Aurien“gold, belonging to” | 3.00 | B6 V | 105 pc | 16,279 K |
| bhor | Nuncefrenien“now-friend, belonging to” | 3.07 | K8 I | 269 pc | 3,904 K |
| ciel | Faelcarvune“maker-cut, place of” | 3.15 | F1 III | 26 pc | 7,386 K |
| dor | Pyrevailor“ash-heap-veil, without” | 3.60 | M3 I | 671 pc | 3,188 K |
| enn | Vanebraeor“wing-bridge, without” | 3.93 | B3 V | 272 pc | 24,059 K |
| fael | Talnureth“foot-quiet, of the” | 4.00 | M0 I | 410 pc | 3,649 K |
| gyre | Korresibbeth“root-sister, of the” | 4.03 | K3 I | 299 pc | 4,680 K |
| hesp | Baelkorrol“clay-root, great” | 4.06 | K5 I | 555 pc | 4,396 K |
| ir | KS 1590 | 4.26 | F6 III | 94 pc | 6,428 K |
How this was made
Braerisa was not designed. It was grown outward from Aurien, 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.