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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 · NGC and IC objects as well

deepSkyObjectfunction

An object by any of its names, ignoring case, spacing and the accent on a letter: M31, Messier 31, NGC 224, IC 434, an object's other NGC or IC number (NGC 1051 for NGC 961) or its common name in English (North America Nebula). A name that two objects share finds neither, except that a Messier object keeps its name.

Import it

import { deepSkyObject } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/deep-sky/ngc-ic";

Definition

function deepSkyObject(text: string): DeepSkyObject | undefined

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
textstring

The designation or name.

Returns

DeepSkyObject | undefined

The object, or undefined if the text names none.

Examples

import { deepSkyObject } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/deep-sky/ngc-ic";

console.log(deepSkyObject("IC 434")?.type, deepSkyObject("NGC 7000")?.name, deepSkyObject("Andromeda Galaxy")?.id);
nebula North America Nebula M31

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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