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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

Contents

Reference · The sky out to a distance, in layers: the stars and galaxies nearer than 10, 50, 100, 500 or 1,000 light-years, each distance band its own colour, the ones with an uncertain distance kept apart, and none placed at a guess

DISTANCE_LIMITSconstant

The limits the sky map steps through, in light-years: 10, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000. Beyond the last is all.

Import it

import { DISTANCE_LIMITS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/distance";

Definition

const DISTANCE_LIMITS: readonly number[] = Object.freeze([10, 50, 100, 500, 1000])

Examples

import { DISTANCE_LIMITS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/distance";

console.log(DISTANCE_LIMITS.join(", "));
10, 50, 100, 500, 1000

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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