Figures / Sarrune
Sarrune
“ember, place of”
sarr “ember” + -une “place of”
Sarrune (“ember, place of”) is a 6-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 25° of the southern sky. Its brightest star is Ansauren, magnitude 3.28.
The story
The Carven hold that Sarrune was a bell-founder who taught the tide a word it still repeats, and is kept there so the others remember the cost. It is a figure of the spring, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Ansauren, the white nail, is the lamp; 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
- 14.01 h
- Declination
- -42.66°
- Angular span
- 24.9°
- Stars in the figure
- 6
- Best season
- spring (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Ansauren“knot-gold, the many” | 3.28 | A9 IV | 17 pc | 7,598 K |
| bhor | Frennunc“friend-now” | 3.74 | K7 I | 745 pc | 4,000 K |
| ciel | Skaieth“falling, of the” | 3.75 | F5 III | 69 pc | 6,641 K |
| dor | Veyr“turning” | 4.07 | F6 III | 56 pc | 6,426 K |
| enn | KS 1523 | 4.15 | B4 V | 232 pc | 21,084 K |
| fael | KS 1562 | 4.21 | B6 I | 465 pc | 15,943 K |
How this was made
Sarrune was not designed. It was grown outward from Ansauren, 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.