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Veinol
“vein, great”
vein “vein” + -ol “great”
Veinol (“vein, great”) is a 5-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 20° of the northern sky. Its brightest star is Hestegarnath, magnitude 3.19.
The story
The Lothen hold that Veinol was a woman who kept no calendar who wrote a letter to no one and posted it into the wind, and is kept there so the others remember the cost. North of 59° it never sets, which is taken as evidence that the sentence has not ended. Hestegarnath, the amber eye, is the eye; the remaining 4 stars are counted inward. Those who keep the old year name no child in the weeks it is hidden.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 15.27 h
- Declination
- +31.49°
- Angular span
- 19.9°
- Stars in the figure
- 5
- Best season
- spring (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- north of 59° latitude, where it never sets
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Hestegarnath“yesterday-stone, made of” | 3.19 | K5 I | 427 pc | 4,417 K |
| bhor | Merea“still-water, she who is” | 3.81 | A3 I | 281 pc | 9,225 K |
| ciel | Frenpyre“friend-ash-heap” | 3.82 | K3 II | 97 pc | 4,668 K |
| dor | Fennesylis“feather-wind, little” | 3.85 | A9 II | 44 pc | 7,573 K |
| enn | Frenathune“friend-father, place of” | 3.91 | F4 III | 40 pc | 6,826 K |
How this was made
Veinol was not designed. It was grown outward from Hestegarnath, 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.