Figures / Fennys
Fennys
“feather, the last”
fenn “feather” + -ys “the last”
Fennys (“feather, the last”) is a 11-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 26° of the southern sky. Its brightest star is Nenemm, magnitude 1.69.
The story
The Dreaden hold that Fennys was a lampwright who kept a light burning for a ship that had already come home, and was nailed to the cold part of the year. It is a figure of the winter, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Nenemm, the cold lamp, is the lamp; the remaining 10 stars are counted inward. Those who keep the old year name no child in the weeks it is hidden.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 11.27 h
- Declination
- -35.78°
- Angular span
- 26.0°
- Stars in the figure
- 11
- Best season
- winter (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Nenemm“rain-lantern” | 1.69 | B8 V | 25 pc | 13,039 K |
| bhor | Sylansaeth“wind-knot, of the” | 2.60 | B6 I | 203 pc | 15,902 K |
| ciel | Lotheveyrar“glow-turning, one who” | 3.25 | F2 I | 312 pc | 7,217 K |
| dor | Braerisaien“bridge-morning, belonging to” | 3.72 | B6 V | 140 pc | 16,542 K |
| enn | Wrenmourath“patience-dusk, made of” | 3.74 | M1 I | 445 pc | 3,505 K |
| fael | Exillothys“exile-glow, the last” | 4.02 | F7 III | 111 pc | 6,304 K |
| gyre | KS 1520 | 4.15 | K7 I | 457 pc | 3,967 K |
| hesp | KS 1522 | 4.15 | B5 V | 194 pc | 17,943 K |
| ir | KS 1572 | 4.23 | F7 V | 11 pc | 6,286 K |
| joth | KS 1612 | 4.28 | M1 III | 205 pc | 3,488 K |
| kai | KS 1634 | 4.31 | K8 III | 121 pc | 3,849 K |
How this was made
Fennys was not designed. It was grown outward from Nenemm, 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.