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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

sliderOfLimitfunction

Where a limit sits on the slider, 0 to 1; all is 1 and a limit under the slider's start is 0. The inverse of limitAtSlider.

Import it

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

Definition

function sliderOfLimit(limit: number): number

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
limitnumber

The limit in light-years.

Returns

number

A position from 0 to 1.

Examples

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

console.log(sliderOfLimit(100).toFixed(3), sliderOfLimit(Infinity));
0.238 1

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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