Figures / Jossedrina
Jossedrina
“luck-throat, she who is”
joss “luck” + drin “throat” + -a “she who is”
Jossedrina (“luck-throat, she who is”) is a 7-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 14° of the far southern sky. Its brightest star is Jossashor, magnitude 2.23.
The story
The Sarren hold that Jossedrina was a bell-founder who walked north until north stopped meaning anything, and was nailed to the cold part of the year. It is unknown in the northern registers; the songs that mention it were all collected south of the line. Jossashor, the red ember, is the hand; the remaining 6 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year say nothing at all, which is considered the correct observance.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 7.54 h
- Declination
- -67.89°
- Angular span
- 14.2°
- Stars in the figure
- 7
- Best season
- winter (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Jossashor“luck-ash, without” | 2.23 | M1 I | 148 pc | 3,614 K |
| bhor | Herdestaden“shepherd-standing, the many” | 2.94 | F2 III | 100 pc | 7,183 K |
| ciel | Pyreis“ash-heap, little” | 3.03 | K2 III | 111 pc | 4,857 K |
| dor | Sovrecorreth“sovereign-crown, of the” | 3.67 | K0 III | 146 pc | 5,186 K |
| enn | KS 1541 | 4.18 | A4 V | 32 pc | 8,895 K |
| fael | KS 1550 | 4.20 | F1 III | 47 pc | 7,297 K |
| gyre | KS 1593 | 4.26 | F5 III | 306 pc | 6,634 K |
How this was made
Jossedrina was not designed. It was grown outward from Jossashor, 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.