Figures / Fughephethath
Fughephethath
“fleeing-flare, made of”
fugh “fleeing” + pheth “flare” + -ath “made of”
Fughephethath (“fleeing-flare, made of”) is a 5-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 11° of the southern sky. Its brightest star is Brae, magnitude 1.98.
The story
The Tessen hold that Fughephethath was a maker of locks who kept a light burning for a ship that had already come home, and is kept there so the others remember the cost. It is a figure of the spring, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Brae, the cold lamp, is the hand; the remaining 4 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year will not begin a journey while it is overhead.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 15.54 h
- Declination
- -32.32°
- Angular span
- 11.0°
- Stars in the figure
- 5
- Best season
- spring (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Brae“bridge” | 1.98 | B7 I | 235 pc | 14,856 K |
| bhor | Veineth“vein, of the” | 3.87 | K0 III | 188 pc | 5,128 K |
| ciel | Sylath“wind, made of” | 4.07 | B7 I | 501 pc | 13,396 K |
| dor | Nimbai“cloud, o —” | 4.14 | B6 V | 172 pc | 16,291 K |
| enn | KS 1623 | 4.29 | B7 V | 127 pc | 15,237 K |
How this was made
Fughephethath was not designed. It was grown outward from Brae, 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.