Figures / Ilmor
Ilmor
“dawn, without”
ilm “dawn” + -or “without”
Ilmor (“dawn, without”) is a 12-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 55° of the equatorial sky. Its brightest star is Braelirath, magnitude 2.71.
The story
The Aelen hold that Ilmor was a singer with no voice who carried water uphill for forty years without spilling it, 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. Braelirath, the cold lamp, is the hand; the remaining 11 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
- 10.57 h
- Declination
- -5.94°
- Angular span
- 54.8°
- Stars in the figure
- 12
- Best season
- winter (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Braelirath“bridge-river, made of” | 2.71 | B5 I | 925 pc | 19,048 K |
| bhor | Phethen“flare, the many” | 3.01 | A4 V | 26 pc | 8,787 K |
| ciel | Sovratheth“sovereign-father, of the” | 3.60 | F6 III | 232 pc | 6,528 K |
| dor | Lothenimb“glow-cloud” | 3.74 | A4 V | 31 pc | 8,860 K |
| enn | Halonen“deep, the many” | 3.79 | A5 V | 26 pc | 8,628 K |
| fael | Solacelashor“solace-wound, without” | 3.84 | M0 III | 123 pc | 3,635 K |
| gyre | Jossys“luck, the last” | 3.92 | M1 III | 46 pc | 3,586 K |
| hesp | Vesaureth“burning-gold, of the” | 4.13 | F8 III | 53 pc | 6,084 K |
| ir | KS 1546 | 4.19 | K1 I | 1.50 kpc | 4,988 K |
| joth | KS 1585 | 4.25 | A2 V | 52 pc | 9,495 K |
| kai | KS 1628 | 4.29 | K3 III | 35 pc | 4,729 K |
| lune | KS 1639 | 4.31 | G4 III | 95 pc | 5,679 K |
How this was made
Ilmor was not designed. It was grown outward from Braelirath, 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.