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Wrennoxis
“patience-dark, little”
wren “patience” + nox “dark” + -is “little”
Wrennoxis (“patience-dark, little”) is a 4-star constellation of The Other Sky, spanning 14° of the northern sky. Its brightest star is Veinsoonar, magnitude 2.27.
The story
The Myren hold that Wrennoxis was a cartographer who measured the sky and found it one hand too small, and is still counting, and the counting is what you see. North of 46° it never sets, which is taken as evidence that the sentence has not ended. Veinsoonar, the amber eye, is the knot; the remaining 3 stars are counted against the turn. Those who keep the old year name no child in the weeks it is hidden.
Where to look
- Right ascension
- 0.87 h
- Declination
- +44.02°
- Angular span
- 14.1°
- Stars in the figure
- 4
- Best season
- autumn (northern hemisphere)
- Circumpolar
- north of 46° latitude, where it never sets
Its stars
| Letter | Name | Mag | Type | Distance | Temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiv | Veinsoonar“vein-soon, one who” | 2.27 | K7 III | 18 pc | 4,114 K |
| bhor | Tessesuleth“tile-salt, of the” | 2.73 | B6 V | 86 pc | 16,324 K |
| ciel | Keleskaieth“key-falling, of the” | 3.39 | F9 III | 144 pc | 6,002 K |
| dor | KS 1650 | 4.32 | K2 III | 64 pc | 4,868 K |
How this was made
Wrennoxis was not designed. It was grown outward from Veinsoonar, 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.