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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

SLIDER_RANGEconstant

The nearest and farthest limits a free slider reaches, in light-years: from Alpha Centauri's neighbourhood to past the Andromeda Galaxy; beyond the last is all.

Import it

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

Definition

const SLIDER_RANGE: readonly [number, number] = Object.freeze([4, 3000000])

Examples

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

console.log(SLIDER_RANGE[0], SLIDER_RANGE[1]);
4 3000000

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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