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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

Difficultytype

How easy a constellation is to find, from the brightness of its stars alone: easy (its third-brightest star is brighter than magnitude 3, or it holds a star as bright as 0.5 and its third is brighter than 3.3), medium (third star brighter than 3.8) or hard.

Import it

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

Definition

type Difficulty = "easy" | "medium" | "hard";

Examples

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

const level: Difficulty = "easy";
console.log(level);
easy

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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