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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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The Western sky: the 88 constellations in Latin, English, Japanese and Chinese, and asterisms such as the Big Dipper and the Summer Triangle

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

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NameKindWhat it is
westernconstantThe Western sky as a culture: the 88 constellations, then the asterisms.

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