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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 · The Messier objects

DeepSkyTypetype

The kind of a deep-sky object: galaxy, globular cluster, open cluster, nebula (emission, reflection and dark nebulae and H II regions), planetary nebula, supernova remnant, or other (an asterism, a star cloud, a double star, a source that is not any of those).

Import it

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

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

Definition

type DeepSkyType = (typeof DEEP_SKY_TYPES)[number];

Examples

import { deepSkyObject, type DeepSkyType } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/deep-sky";

const type: DeepSkyType = deepSkyObject("M1")!.type;
console.log(type);
supernova remnant

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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