Figures / Fughansaien
Fughansaien
“fleeing-knot, belonging to”
fugh “fleeing” + ansa “knot” + -ien “belonging to”
Fughansaien (“fleeing-knot, belonging to”) is a 6-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 34° of the northern sky. Its brightest star is Emmeneneth, magnitude 2.99.
The story
The Sibben hold that Fughansaien was an unbeliever who counted every stone in the river and forgot her own name doing it, and was let go, which was the worse sentence. It is a figure of the spring, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Emmeneneth, the cold lamp, is the hand; the remaining 5 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year name no child in the weeks it is hidden.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 16.03 h
- Declination
- +20.19°
- Angular span
- 34.1°
- 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 | Emmeneneth“lantern-rain, of the” | 2.99 | B3 V | 168 pc | 23,444 K |
| bhor | Neyra“never, she who is” | 3.51 | K2 III | 148 pc | 4,797 K |
| ciel | Carvaera“cut-open-sky, she who is” | 3.74 | B6 V | 107 pc | 15,709 K |
| dor | Sarren“ember, the many” | 3.86 | B9 V | 44 pc | 10,374 K |
| enn | Haelol“breath, great” | 3.89 | B7 V | 100 pc | 14,688 K |
| fael | Ilmansa“dawn-knot, she who is” | 3.96 | F4 III | 103 pc | 6,767 K |
How this was made
Fughansaien was not designed. It was grown outward from Emmeneneth, 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.