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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

Contents

Reference · Facts for a gallery or a list: meaning, hemisphere, best month, origin, difficulty, asterisms, meteor showers

ConstellationFactstype

The facts about one constellation.

Import it

import type { ConstellationFacts } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/constellation-facts";

Definition

interface ConstellationFacts {
    constellation: Constellation;
    meaning: Words;
    hemisphere: Hemisphere;
    bestMonth: number;
    origin: Origin;
    designer: Words;
    year: number;
    difficulty: Difficulty;
    asterisms: Words[];
    meteorShowers: MeteorShower[];
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
constellationConstellation

The constellation.

meaningWords

What the name means: the English name is the one in constellation.english; the Japanese is a short everyday phrase.

hemisphereHemisphere

The half of the sky it lies in.

bestMonthnumber

The month, 1 to 12, in which it is highest in the evening sky (about 21:00 by the Sun, the 15th).

originOrigin

The group it was made in.

designerWords

Who made it.

yearnumber

The year it was made (about 150 for Ptolemy's).

difficultyDifficulty

How easy it is to find.

asterismsWords[]

Patterns of stars that use it and are not constellations (the Big Dipper, the Summer Triangle).

meteorShowersMeteorShower[]

The meteor showers whose radiant lies in it, in date order.

Examples

import { constellationFacts, type ConstellationFacts } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/constellation-facts";

const orion: ConstellationFacts = constellationFacts("Ori");
console.log(orion.constellation.name, orion.hemisphere, orion.bestMonth, orion.difficulty);
Orion both 1 easy

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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