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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

Hemispheretype

Where a constellation lies: north (wholly in the northern half of the sky), south, or both (it crosses the celestial equator, by more than a degree).

Import it

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

Definition

type Hemisphere = "north" | "south" | "both";

Examples

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

const sides: Hemisphere[] = ["north", "south", "both"];
console.log(sides.length);
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What it prints (run when this page was built)

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