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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 · How big a Messier object is on the sky and which way it lies, and its outline

DeepSkyShapeSourcetype

The place a size came from, as deepSkyShape names it: RC3 (the Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies, for a galaxy's major axis, axis ratio and angle), NED (NASA/IPAC NED's diameters table, for a galaxy RC3 does not give), or Catalogue row (the one diameter that the object's own row in the deep-sky table carries: Wikidata's, and for a Messier object what the table held already).

Import it

import type { DeepSkyShapeSource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/deep-sky/shape";

Also exported from: @johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/deep-sky/ngc-ic-shape

Definition

type DeepSkyShapeSource = "RC3" | "NED" | "Catalogue row";

Examples

import { type DeepSkyShapeSource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/deep-sky/shape";

const source: DeepSkyShapeSource = "RC3";
console.log(source);
RC3

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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