Figures / Veyrnimbeth
Veyrnimbeth
“turning-cloud, of the”
veyr “turning” + nimb “cloud” + -eth “of the”
Veyrnimbeth (“turning-cloud, of the”) is a 14-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 51° of the equatorial sky. Its brightest star is Issilmune, magnitude 1.99.
The story
The Sablen hold that Veyrnimbeth was a shepherd who carried water uphill for forty years without spilling it, and was nailed to the cold part of the year. It is a figure of the autumn, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Issilmune, the pale coin, is the heart; the remaining 13 stars are counted against the turn. Those who keep the old year sing to it badly, on purpose, so it does not grow proud.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 2.44 h
- Declination
- -2.41°
- Angular span
- 50.7°
- Stars in the figure
- 14
- Best season
- autumn (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Issilmune“thread-dawn, place of” | 1.99 | F1 V | 9 pc | 7,364 K |
| bhor | Risalirune“morning-river, place of” | 2.04 | B6 V | 62 pc | 16,243 K |
| ciel | Vashesarren“wave-ember, the many” | 2.62 | B8 V | 38 pc | 12,986 K |
| dor | Kelebraear“key-bridge, one who” | 3.18 | B5 I | 402 pc | 19,186 K |
| enn | Nenilmeth“rain-dawn, of the” | 3.46 | A9 V | 15 pc | 7,526 K |
| fael | Ilmefennis“dawn-feather, little” | 3.64 | A9 III | 57 pc | 7,631 K |
| gyre | Risaphethath“morning-flare, made of” | 3.83 | B5 I | 1.07 kpc | 19,396 K |
| hesp | Nurirys“quiet-anger, the last” | 3.89 | M1 III | 46 pc | 3,543 K |
| ir | Eska“ice, she who is” | 3.89 | B7 V | 83 pc | 13,579 K |
| joth | Haelemmien“breath-lantern, belonging to” | 3.95 | A4 V | 40 pc | 8,995 K |
| kai | Ansarisol“knot-morning, great” | 3.96 | G3 III | 45 pc | 5,777 K |
| lune | Wendeverune“traveller-always, place of” | 4.03 | K9 I | 599 pc | 3,752 K |
| mor | KS 1637 | 4.31 | M2 III | 195 pc | 3,410 K |
| nix | KS 1667 | 4.34 | K2 III | 36 pc | 4,826 K |
How this was made
Veyrnimbeth was not designed. It was grown outward from Issilmune, 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.