Figures / Fughestadar
Fughestadar
“fleeing-standing, one who”
fugh “fleeing” + stad “standing” + -ar “one who”
Fughestadar (“fleeing-standing, one who”) is a 5-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 10° of the southern sky. Its brightest star is Lirloomath, magnitude 1.79.
The story
The Nihilen hold that Fughestadar was a midwife who stole the hour before dawn and could not give it back, 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. Lirloomath, the white nail, is the wound; the remaining 4 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year settle debts on the night it first clears the roofline.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 7.53 h
- Declination
- -28.94°
- Angular span
- 10.2°
- Stars in the figure
- 5
- Best season
- winter (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Lirloomath“river-loom, made of” | 1.79 | A6 V | 11 pc | 8,216 K |
| bhor | Orphana“orphan, she who is” | 2.74 | K4 III | 61 pc | 4,578 K |
| ciel | Faelissor“maker-thread, without” | 3.16 | B3 V | 185 pc | 24,235 K |
| dor | Wreneth“patience, of the” | 3.71 | M0 I | 395 pc | 3,670 K |
| enn | Sangekorren“blood-root, the many” | 3.96 | M1 I | 308 pc | 3,553 K |
How this was made
Fughestadar was not designed. It was grown outward from Lirloomath, 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.