Reference
Facts for a gallery or a list: meaning, hemisphere, best month, origin, difficulty, asterisms, meteor showers
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Exports
| Name | Kind | What it is |
|---|---|---|
allConstellationFacts | function | The facts about all 88 constellations, alphabetical by Latin name like constellations(). |
constellationFacts | function | The facts about one constellation. |
ConstellationFacts | type | The facts about one constellation. |
Difficulty | type | 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. |
Hemisphere | type | 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). |
MeteorShower | type | One meteor shower whose radiant lies in a constellation. |
Origin | type | 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). |
Words | type | A text in English and in Japanese. |