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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

constellationsfunction

All 88 constellations, alphabetical by Latin name (Andromeda first, Vulpecula last).

Import it

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

Definition

function constellations(): Constellation[]

Returns

Constellation[]

A fresh array of the shared, frozen constellations.

Examples

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

console.log(constellations().length, constellations().map((c) => c.japanese).slice(0, 3));
88 [ 'アンドロメダ座', 'ポンプ座', 'ふうちょう座' ]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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