Figures / Loomeskaien
Loomeskaien
“loom-falling, belonging to”
loom “loom” + skai “falling” + -ien “belonging to”
Loomeskaien (“loom-falling, belonging to”) is a 6-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 15° of the southern sky. Its brightest star is Issenimbien, magnitude 1.23.
The story
The Dunen hold that Loomeskaien was a midwife who sold the same shadow to eleven buyers, and was set turning and has not been released. It is a figure of the summer, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Issenimbien, the cold lamp, is the hand; the remaining 5 stars are counted inward. Those who keep the old year name no child in the weeks it is hidden.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 23.02 h
- Declination
- -39.65°
- Angular span
- 14.9°
- Stars in the figure
- 6
- Best season
- summer (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Issenimbien“thread-cloud, belonging to” | 1.23 | B5 IV | 65 pc | 19,628 K |
| bhor | Lasha“wound, she who is” | 1.81 | M3 I | 120 pc | 3,157 K |
| ciel | Vanerisath“wing-morning, made of” | 2.50 | A5 V | 13 pc | 8,583 K |
| dor | Carvath“cut, made of” | 3.65 | B6 V | 160 pc | 16,735 K |
| enn | Haelrisa“breath-morning, she who is” | 4.11 | A8 III | 80 pc | 7,781 K |
| fael | KS 1622 | 4.29 | K8 III | 42 pc | 3,832 K |
How this was made
Loomeskaien was not designed. It was grown outward from Issenimbien, 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.