Figures / Sibborphanen
Sibborphanen
“sister-orphan, the many”
sibb “sister” + orphan “orphan” + -en “the many”
Sibborphanen (“sister-orphan, the many”) is a 7-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 19° of the southern sky. Its brightest star is Correveinol, magnitude 0.88.
The story
The Esken hold that Sibborphanen was a translator who unpicked the seam between one season and the next, and was hung up where the debt could be seen. It is a figure of the summer, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Correveinol, the amber eye, is the heart; the remaining 6 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year count its stars aloud and always stop one short.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 20.97 h
- Declination
- -15.51°
- Angular span
- 18.6°
- Stars in the figure
- 7
- Best season
- summer (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Correveinol“crown-vein, great” | 0.88 | K8 III | 8 pc | 3,891 K |
| bhor | Lothar“glow, one who” | 2.19 | B8 V | 25 pc | 11,753 K |
| ciel | Exilsoonien“exile-soon, belonging to” | 2.25 | K4 III | 22 pc | 4,590 K |
| dor | Agra“field” | 2.92 | K4 III | 70 pc | 4,451 K |
| enn | Risaune“morning, place of” | 3.43 | F6 III | 102 pc | 6,566 K |
| fael | Vailethalys“veil-longing, the last” | 4.14 | M1 III | 184 pc | 3,465 K |
| gyre | KS 1609 | 4.28 | M0 III | 196 pc | 3,644 K |
How this was made
Sibborphanen was not designed. It was grown outward from Correveinol, 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.