Figures / Vesune
Vesune
“burning, place of”
ves “burning” + -une “place of”
Vesune (“burning, place of”) is a 12-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 27° of the far southern sky. Its brightest star is Zirfaelen, magnitude -0.24.
The story
The Garnen hold that Vesune was a surveyor of borders who counted every stone in the river and forgot her own name doing it, and was let go, which was the worse sentence. It is unknown in the northern registers; the songs that mention it were all collected south of the line. Zirfaelen, the cold lamp, is the wound; the remaining 11 stars are counted against the turn. Those who keep the old year count its stars aloud and always stop one short.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 21.85 h
- Declination
- -87.64°
- Angular span
- 27.0°
- Stars in the figure
- 12
- Best season
- summer (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Zirfaelen“high-maker, the many” | -0.24 | B7 I | 55 pc | 13,794 K |
| bhor | Frensovrol“friend-sovereign, great” | 2.12 | K7 I | 191 pc | 4,046 K |
| ciel | Vanefaela“wing-maker, she who is” | 2.65 | B5 V | 105 pc | 17,887 K |
| dor | Corredrineth“crown-throat, of the” | 3.48 | K7 II | 76 pc | 4,028 K |
| enn | Aurebraeor“gold-bridge, without” | 3.71 | B8 V | 59 pc | 12,327 K |
| fael | Phethenena“flare-rain, she who is” | 3.75 | B2 V | 270 pc | 25,288 K |
| gyre | Emmath“lantern, made of” | 3.96 | G4 III | 284 pc | 5,647 K |
| hesp | Merelirath“still-water-river, made of” | 4.09 | A3 V | 38 pc | 9,109 K |
| ir | Evergarnar“always-stone, one who” | 4.09 | K6 III | 158 pc | 4,255 K |
| joth | Mornath“tomorrow, made of” | 4.13 | K5 III | 108 pc | 4,447 K |
| kai | KS 1524 | 4.16 | A5 V | 29 pc | 8,495 K |
| lune | KS 1548 | 4.19 | K7 III | 98 pc | 3,959 K |
How this was made
Vesune was not designed. It was grown outward from Zirfaelen, 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.