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Chikyu Earth地球

A line-drawn globe of the world's countries that turns at the Earth's own rate, with an optional realistic Earth from space and markers for any place.

Chikyu is the Japanese word 地球 for the Earth. About the name

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Reference · Passes: when a satellite crosses the sky over a place

SkyNametype

How dark the watcher's sky is, by the Sun's altitude: day (the Sun is up), civil twilight (the Sun is below the horizon by up to 6 degrees: the brightest stars and planets show), nautical (6 to 12 degrees), astronomical (12 to 18 degrees) and night (more than 18 degrees below).

Import it

import type { SkyName } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/passes";

Definition

type SkyName = "day" | "civil" | "nautical" | "astronomical" | "night";

Examples

import type { SkyName } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/passes";

const sky: SkyName = "civil";
console.log(sky);
civil

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth 0.51.1.