Figures / Talmourol
Talmourol
“foot-dusk, great”
tal “foot” + mour “dusk” + -ol “great”
Talmourol (“foot-dusk, great”) is a 4-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 6° of the southern sky. Its brightest star is Asheherdien, magnitude 3.34.
The story
The Abysen hold that Talmourol was a lampwright who walked north until north stopped meaning anything, 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. Asheherdien, the amber eye, is the wound; the remaining 3 stars are counted from the ground up. Those who keep the old year will not begin a journey while it is overhead.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 3.18 h
- Declination
- -21.89°
- Angular span
- 6.1°
- Stars in the figure
- 4
- Best season
- autumn (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Asheherdien“ash-shepherd, belonging to” | 3.34 | K4 III | 164 pc | 4,467 K |
| bhor | Rensablys“heart-deep-dark, the last” | 3.36 | M2 I | 503 pc | 3,356 K |
| ciel | KS 1591 | 4.26 | B4 I | 811 pc | 20,604 K |
| dor | KS 1658 | 4.33 | F6 III | 261 pc | 6,544 K |
How this was made
Talmourol was not designed. It was grown outward from Asheherdien, 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.