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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 · /chart

pickAccuracyfunction

The grade and the ± of a star, for a pick: the grade, the distance range and the position resolution.

Import it

import { pickAccuracy } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/chart";

Definition

function pickAccuracy(star: Star): PickAccuracy

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
starStar

A bright star.

Returns

PickAccuracy

The grade, the distance range in light-years (or null) and the position resolution in arc-seconds.

Examples

import { starByName } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars";
import { pickAccuracy } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/chart";

console.log(pickAccuracy(starByName("Rigel")!).grade); // C
C

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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