Figures / Corrien
Corrien
“crown, belonging to”
corr “crown” + -ien “belonging to”
Corrien (“crown, belonging to”) is a 8-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 30° of the northern sky. Its brightest star is Dreadireth, magnitude 1.68.
The story
The Renen hold that Corrien was a woman who kept no calendar who counted every stone in the river and forgot her own name doing it, and was hung up where the debt could be seen. It is a figure of the summer, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Dreadireth, the red ember, is the heart; the remaining 7 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year count its stars aloud and always stop one short.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 21.06 h
- Declination
- +20.39°
- Angular span
- 29.6°
- Stars in the figure
- 8
- Best season
- summer (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Dreadireth“fear-anger, of the” | 1.68 | M2 III | 12 pc | 3,313 K |
| bhor | Vashesuleth“wave-salt, of the” | 2.95 | B7 V | 55 pc | 14,374 K |
| ciel | Anahesta“mother-yesterday, she who is” | 3.27 | K7 I | 404 pc | 4,084 K |
| dor | Ilma“dawn, she who is” | 3.44 | B6 I | 1.23 kpc | 15,742 K |
| enn | Aurlothar“gold-glow, one who” | 3.75 | F1 V | 15 pc | 7,298 K |
| fael | Korrecorrar“root-crown, one who” | 3.86 | M1 III | 54 pc | 3,568 K |
| gyre | KS 1584 | 4.25 | B7 I | 346 pc | 13,705 K |
| hesp | KS 1665 | 4.34 | A8 III | 68 pc | 7,779 K |
How this was made
Corrien was not designed. It was grown outward from Dreadireth, 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.