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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

Reference

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

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

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Exports

Name	Kind	What it is
`Asterism`	type	One figure of a sky culture: its names, its reading and the stars it joins, as Bright Star Catalogue (HR) numbers.
`AsterismKind`	type	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.
`Culture`	type	A sky culture: a named set of figures.
`defineCulture`	function	Makes a culture from a function that lists its figures.
`NameLanguage`	type	The languages a name can be in: Latin, English, Japanese, and Chinese in Simplified (`zh-Hans`) and Traditional (`zh-Hant`) characters.

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