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Mouror
“dusk, without”
mour “dusk” + -or “without”
Mouror (“dusk, without”) is a 9-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 15° of the far southern sky. Its brightest star is Korrelashien, magnitude 1.85.
The story
The Myren hold that Mouror was a drowned sailor who unpicked the seam between one season and the next, and is kept there so the others remember the cost. It is a figure of the winter, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Korrelashien, the red ember, is the eye; the remaining 8 stars are counted against the turn. Those who keep the old year keep the last window unshuttered while it passes.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 7.48 h
- Declination
- -51.25°
- Angular span
- 14.8°
- Stars in the figure
- 9
- Best season
- winter (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Korrelashien“root-wound, belonging to” | 1.85 | M3 I | 614 pc | 3,258 K |
| bhor | Loomar“loom, one who” | 3.56 | F5 III | 43 pc | 6,713 K |
| ciel | Phethehalonien“flare-deep, belonging to” | 3.61 | A5 V | 29 pc | 8,609 K |
| dor | Baelashol“clay-ash, great” | 3.62 | K7 I | 499 pc | 3,981 K |
| enn | Halonis“deep, little” | 3.65 | A1 I | 606 pc | 9,709 K |
| fael | Athewendai“father-traveller, o —” | 3.75 | K5 I | 511 pc | 4,305 K |
| gyre | Aerar“open-sky, one who” | 3.94 | B6 V | 109 pc | 15,882 K |
| hesp | KS 1542 | 4.18 | B6 V | 131 pc | 16,568 K |
| ir | KS 1619 | 4.28 | K8 III | 241 pc | 3,949 K |
How this was made
Mouror was not designed. It was grown outward from Korrelashien, 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.