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

deepSkyPicturesfunction

Every picture the package has: the survey pictures, the Messier objects first in Messier order and then the brighter NGC and IC objects, and then the finer pictures of part of an object.

Import it

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

Definition

function deepSkyPictures(): DeepSkyPicture[]

Returns

DeepSkyPicture[]

A fresh array of the shared, frozen pictures.

Examples

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

console.log(deepSkyPictures().length, deepSkyPictures()[0]?.id);
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What it prints (run when this page was built)

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