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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

Contents

Reference · Pictures of deep-sky objects and where each lies on the sky

PictureSourcetype

Where a picture comes from: the survey, how its colours are made, who is credited and the licence it is used under. The same words are in NOTICE.md.

Import it

import type { PictureSource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/deep-sky/pictures";

Definition

interface PictureSource {
    name: string;
    colour: string;
    credit: string;
    licence: string;
    page: string;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
namestring

The survey and its bands (SDSS g, r, i).

colourstring

How the colours are made (near-infrared, false colour (J, H, K as blue, green, red), stretched).

creditstring

Who is credited.

licencestring

The licence the survey's data is used under.

pagestring

The survey's own page.

Examples

import { deepSkyPicture, type PictureSource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/deep-sky/pictures";

const source: PictureSource = deepSkyPicture("M51")!.source;
console.log(source.name, source.credit);
SDSS g, r, i Sloan Digital Sky Survey, images from NASA's SkyView

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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