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Hoshi Stars星

The stars you can see without a telescope, with names, colours and distances; the 88 constellations with their lines and boundaries; the Messier objects; and seven map projections to draw them on.

Hoshi is the Japanese word 星 for a star. About the name

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Reference · The whole sky on one wide 2:1 map: galactic or equatorial, Mollweide, Hammer or plate carrée, with lines cut cleanly at the seam

ALL_SKY_FRAMESconstant

The two orientations of the whole-sky picture: galactic puts the Galaxy's plane along the middle with the centre of the Galaxy (in Sagittarius) in the middle of the picture, equatorial puts the celestial equator along the middle.

Import it

import { ALL_SKY_FRAMES } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/all-sky";

Definition

const ALL_SKY_FRAMES: readonly ["galactic", "equatorial"] = ["galactic", "equatorial"] as const

Examples

import { ALL_SKY_FRAMES } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/all-sky";

console.log(ALL_SKY_FRAMES.join(", "));
galactic, equatorial

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars 0.47.0.