Figures / Emmehaltol
Emmehaltol
“lantern-halting, great”
emm “lantern” + halt “halting” + -ol “great”
Emmehaltol (“lantern-halting, great”) is a 6-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 10° of the southern sky. Its brightest star is Sylol, magnitude 1.83.
The story
The Sibben hold that Emmehaltol was a cartographer who sold the same shadow to eleven buyers, and is still counting, and the counting is what you see. It is a figure of the spring, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Sylol, the cold lamp, is the eye; the remaining 5 stars are counted sunwise. Those who keep the old year settle debts on the night it first clears the roofline.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 14.57 h
- Declination
- -25.31°
- Angular span
- 10.2°
- Stars in the figure
- 6
- Best season
- spring (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Sylol“wind, great” | 1.83 | B8 V | 26 pc | 11,883 K |
| bhor | Dunocol“hill-eye, great” | 2.72 | K5 I | 203 pc | 4,323 K |
| ciel | Fennezirath“feather-high, made of” | 3.01 | B8 V | 34 pc | 11,119 K |
| dor | Cyniss“white-thread” | 3.80 | G1 III | 214 pc | 5,939 K |
| enn | Skaia“falling, she who is” | 3.80 | G7 III | 240 pc | 5,343 K |
| fael | Fughen“fleeing, the many” | 4.08 | F9 III | 49 pc | 6,011 K |
How this was made
Emmehaltol was not designed. It was grown outward from Sylol, 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.