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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 · Sky cultures: the figure and culture types, and your own culture

AsterismKindtype

What kind of thing a figure is: one of the 88 constellations, a smaller asterism, or one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Chinese sky.

Import it

import type { AsterismKind } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/culture";

Definition

type AsterismKind = "constellation" | "asterism" | "mansion";

Examples

import type { AsterismKind } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/culture";

const kinds: AsterismKind[] = ["constellation", "asterism", "mansion"];
console.log(kinds);
[ 'constellation', 'asterism', 'mansion' ]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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