Figures / Risaeth
Risaeth
“morning, of the”
risa “morning” + -eth “of the”
Risaeth (“morning, of the”) is a 13-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 30° of the equatorial sky. Its brightest star is Risaeleth, magnitude 0.59.
The story
The Iren hold that Risaeth was a tax-collector who refused an inheritance and was written out of the year, and is kept there so the others remember the cost. It is a figure of the summer, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Risaeleth, the cold lamp, is the hand; the remaining 12 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year sing to it badly, on purpose, so it does not grow proud.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 22.64 h
- Declination
- -0.07°
- Angular span
- 30.2°
- Stars in the figure
- 13
- Best season
- summer (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Risaeleth“morning-light, of the” | 0.59 | B8 I | 121 pc | 12,603 K |
| bhor | Braelooma“bridge-loom, she who is” | 1.81 | B3 V | 103 pc | 23,621 K |
| ciel | Aeror“open-sky, without” | 2.26 | B5 I | 139 pc | 18,128 K |
| dor | Vashebraeis“wave-bridge, little” | 2.49 | A4 V | 14 pc | 8,803 K |
| enn | Lothen“glow, the many” | 2.77 | B4 V | 126 pc | 21,698 K |
| fael | Anatessune“mother-tile, place of” | 2.89 | G1 V | 4 pc | 5,891 K |
| gyre | Ashesibbien“ash-sister, belonging to” | 3.44 | K2 III | 66 pc | 4,824 K |
| hesp | Stadfughol“standing-fleeing, great” | 3.52 | F7 V | 12 pc | 6,347 K |
| ir | Faelnimbis“maker-cloud, little” | 3.77 | A6 V | 27 pc | 8,304 K |
| joth | Haltilmath“halting-dawn, made of” | 4.05 | F6 II | 99 pc | 6,539 K |
| kai | KS 1569 | 4.22 | F6 III | 133 pc | 6,555 K |
| lune | KS 1595 | 4.26 | B4 V | 288 pc | 21,460 K |
| mor | KS 1660 | 4.34 | F7 V | 13 pc | 6,401 K |
How this was made
Risaeth was not designed. It was grown outward from Risaeleth, 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.