Figures / Emmesyla
Emmesyla
“lantern-wind, she who is”
emm “lantern” + syl “wind” + -a “she who is”
Emmesyla (“lantern-wind, she who is”) is a 8-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 3° of the equatorial sky. Its brightest star is Kelzirath, magnitude 2.88.
The story
The Ashen hold that Emmesyla was a translator who wrote a letter to no one and posted it into the wind, and was given to the sky in place of payment. It is a figure of the winter, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Kelzirath, the cold lamp, is the lamp; the remaining 7 stars are counted inward. Those who keep the old year say nothing at all, which is considered the correct observance.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 7.15 h
- Declination
- -1.12°
- Angular span
- 2.5°
- Stars in the figure
- 8
- Best season
- winter (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Kelzirath“key-high, made of” | 2.88 | B8 I | 183 pc | 12,874 K |
| bhor | Sibbagraen“sister-field, the many” | 3.19 | K5 III | 192 pc | 4,368 K |
| ciel | Climbeherdeth“climbing-shepherd, of the” | 3.35 | G6 III | 193 pc | 5,507 K |
| dor | Nenzireth“rain-high, of the” | 3.74 | B4 V | 191 pc | 20,641 K |
| enn | Exilrisais“exile-morning, little” | 3.84 | F3 III | 187 pc | 7,025 K |
| fael | Ireagraeth“anger-field, of the” | 3.97 | M2 III | 186 pc | 3,320 K |
| gyre | Sylaurys“wind-gold, the last” | 4.06 | B5 V | 191 pc | 18,306 K |
| hesp | Exilen“exile, the many” | 4.14 | F1 III | 187 pc | 7,358 K |
How this was made
Emmesyla was not designed. It was grown outward from Kelzirath, 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.