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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

messierfunction

The 110 Messier objects, M1 first and M110 last. M102 is the one the literature disagrees about: Messier's own description matches M101 (a repeat of it), and the modern lists take it for the lenticular galaxy NGC 5866, which is what this table does (a note on M102 is in NOTICE.md). M40 (Winnecke 4, a double star) and M73 (four stars) are in the list as other, since Messier listed them.

Import it

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

Definition

function messier(): DeepSkyObject[]

Returns

DeepSkyObject[]

A fresh array of the shared, frozen objects.

Examples

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

console.log(messier().length, messier()[30]?.name);
110 Andromeda Galaxy

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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