Skip to the content

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

Contents

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

AllSkyProjectiontype

A projection of the whole-sky picture.

Import it

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

Definition

type AllSkyProjection = (typeof ALL_SKY_PROJECTIONS)[number];

Examples

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

const kind: AllSkyProjection = ALL_SKY_PROJECTIONS[0];
console.log(kind);
mollweide

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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