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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

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

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NameKindWhat it is
constellationfunctionA 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).
ConstellationtypeOne of the 88 constellations.
constellationsfunctionAll 88 constellations, alphabetical by Latin name (Andromeda first, Vulpecula last).
starsInfunctionThe bright stars that lie in a constellation, brightest first: every star of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue (to magnitude 6.0) whose constellation is that abbreviation, with a Bayer letter or a Flamsteed number or without one.

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