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

MeteorShowertype

One meteor shower whose radiant lies in a constellation.

Import it

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

Definition

interface MeteorShower {
    name: Words;
    peak: string;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
nameWords

The IAU name, in English and Japanese.

peakstring

The usual night of the peak as MM-DD; it moves by a day or so from year to year.

Examples

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

const shower: MeteorShower = constellationFacts("Per").meteorShowers[0]!;
console.log(shower.name.en, shower.peak);
Perseids 08-12

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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