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Wren
“patience”
wren “patience”
Wren (“patience”) is a 9-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 23° of the equatorial sky. Its brightest star is Ren, magnitude 2.21.
The story
The Baelen hold that Wren was a lampwright who gave away a name and was answered by everything, and was set turning and has not been released. It is a figure of the autumn, and its setting is the older marker for the end of that season. Ren, the red ember, is the heart; the remaining 8 stars are counted sunwise. Those who keep the old year name no child in the weeks it is hidden.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 4.40 h
- Declination
- -7.55°
- Angular span
- 23.0°
- Stars in the figure
- 9
- Best season
- autumn (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- nowhere — it rises and sets at every inhabited latitude
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Ren“heart” | 2.21 | M3 I | 137 pc | 3,233 K |
| bhor | Ansafrenis“knot-friend, little” | 2.62 | G6 V | 4 pc | 5,498 K |
| ciel | Emmaelys“lantern-light, the last” | 3.20 | A7 V | 18 pc | 8,045 K |
| dor | Skaiaurar“falling-gold, one who” | 3.64 | F3 III | 29 pc | 7,044 K |
| enn | Sangerenar“blood-heart, one who” | 3.78 | M1 III | 61 pc | 3,534 K |
| fael | Umbrien“shadow, belonging to” | 3.92 | M3 I | 1.05 kpc | 3,184 K |
| gyre | Phethezirar“flare-high, one who” | 4.11 | B7 V | 100 pc | 15,246 K |
| hesp | KS 1632 | 4.30 | G1 III | 49 pc | 5,909 K |
| ir | KS 1641 | 4.31 | K3 I | 382 pc | 4,655 K |
How this was made
Wren was not designed. It was grown outward from Ren, 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.