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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_PROJECTIONSconstant

The projections that fill a 2:1 box exactly: Mollweide's and Hammer's equal-area ovals and the plain longitude and latitude rectangle.

Import it

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

Definition

const ALL_SKY_PROJECTIONS: readonly ["mollweide", "hammer", "equirectangular"] = ["mollweide", "hammer", "equirectangular"] as const

Examples

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

console.log(ALL_SKY_PROJECTIONS.join(", "));
mollweide, hammer, equirectangular

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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