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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 · The 88 constellations, in English and Japanese

constellationfunction

A constellation by any of its names, ignoring case and the accent on Boötes: the IAU abbreviation (CMa), the Latin name (Canis Major), the genitive (Canis Majoris), the English name (Great Dog), the Japanese name with or without 座 (おおいぬ座, おおいぬ) in katakana or hiragana, or its hiragana reading (おおいぬざ). A text that would name two constellations finds neither.

Import it

import { constellation } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/constellations";

Definition

function constellation(text: string): Constellation | undefined

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
textstring

The name, in any of those forms.

Returns

Constellation | undefined

The constellation, or undefined if the text is none of them.

Examples

import { constellation } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/constellations";

console.log(constellation("cma")?.english, constellation("オリオン座")?.abbreviation, constellation("おおぐま座")?.name);
Great Dog Ori Ursa Major

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars 0.7.0.