Figures / Solaceath
Solaceath
“solace, made of”
solace “solace” + -ath “made of”
Solaceath (“solace, made of”) is a 3-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 10° of the equatorial sky. Its brightest star is Garneveinor, magnitude 2.22.
The story
The Orbisen hold that Solaceath was a keeper of bees who sold the same shadow to eleven buyers, and was hung up where the debt could be seen. It is a figure of the autumn, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Garneveinor, the amber eye, is the hand; the remaining 2 stars are counted inward. Those who keep the old year settle debts on the night it first clears the roofline.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 5.10 h
- Declination
- +3.31°
- Angular span
- 9.5°
- Stars in the figure
- 3
- Best season
- autumn (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Garneveinor“stone-vein, without” | 2.22 | K5 III | 47 pc | 4,428 K |
| bhor | Eskevash“ice-wave” | 2.71 | B4 I | 262 pc | 21,651 K |
| ciel | Tal“foot” | 3.42 | K7 II | 112 pc | 4,032 K |
How this was made
Solaceath was not designed. It was grown outward from Garneveinor, 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.