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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

Origintype

Who first drew the constellation, in four groups: ancient (Ptolemy's 48, in the second century; Argo Navis is now Carina, Puppis and Vela), voyages (the southern sky mapped on the Dutch voyages of the 1590s), early (added in the 1500s and 1600s) and modern (Lacaille's, in the 1750s).

Import it

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

Definition

type Origin = "ancient" | "voyages" | "early" | "modern";

Examples

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

const origin: Origin = "ancient";
console.log(origin);
ancient

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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