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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 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

LayerKindtype

The kind of thing in a layer: a bright star of the Yale catalogue, a nearby star of the Yale parallax catalogue (/nearby), or a deep-sky object with a distance (a galaxy).

Import it

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

Definition

type LayerKind = "star" | "nearby" | "deep-sky";

Examples

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

const kind: LayerKind = "deep-sky";
console.log(kind);
deep-sky

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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