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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

deepSkyPicturesOffunction

Every picture of an object, the widest first and the finest last: draw them in that order and each finer one lies over the part of the coarser one it shows better. Found like deepSkyPicture.

Import it

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

Definition

function deepSkyPicturesOf(text: string): DeepSkyPicture[]

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
textstring

The object's id.

Returns

DeepSkyPicture[]

A fresh array of the shared, frozen pictures: empty where the object has none.

Examples

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

console.log(deepSkyPicturesOf("M51").map((picture) => picture.id));
[ 'M51', 'M51-heic0506a' ]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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