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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 data door: hand the package your own stars or objects as a source with its own licence and credit, and see whose data is on the screen

OWN_SOURCESconstant

The package's own data, as sources, written from the rows of NOTICE.md: the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, UCAC4 and the deep-sky list from Wikidata. A test holds that none is non-commercial or share-alike, so the package can pass all of it on under the MIT licence. The credit of what a view draws is written from these.

Import it

import { OWN_SOURCES } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/door";

Definition

const OWN_SOURCES: readonly SourceInfo[] = freeze([
    {
        id: "yale-bsc",
        name: { en: "Yale Bright Star Catalogue", ja: "イェール輝星カタログ" },
        credit: { en: "Bright stars: Yale Bright Star Catalogue, D. Hoffleit and W. H. Warren Jr. (1991), via NASA HEASARC", ja: "明るい星:イェール輝星カタログ(D. Hoffleit、W. H. Warren Jr.、1991年、NASA HEASARC提供)" },
        licence: { name: "Public domain", url: NOTICE },
        url: "https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/star-catalog/bsc5p.html",
        retrieved: "2026-11-08",
    },
    {
        id: "ucac4",
        name: { en: "UCAC4", ja: "UCAC4" },
        credit: {
            en: "Faint stars: UCAC4, N. Zacharias et al. (2013), U.S. Naval Observatory, via NASA/IPAC IRSA; magnitudes and colours from APASS",
            ja: "暗い星:UCAC4(N. Zacharias ほか、2013年、米国海軍天文台、NASA/IPAC IRSA提供、等級と色はAPASS)",
        },
        licence: { name: "UCAC4 terms of use", url: "https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/USNO/UCAC4/overview.html" },
        url: "https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/USNO/UCAC4/overview.html",
        retrieved: "2026-11-09",
    },
    {
        id: "wikidata-deep-sky",
        name: { en: "Deep-sky objects from Wikidata", ja: "Wikidataのディープスカイ天体" },
        credit: { en: "Deep-sky objects: Wikidata", ja: "ディープスカイ天体:Wikidata" },
        licence: { name: "CC0 1.0", url: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", spdx: "CC0-1.0" },
        url: "https://www.wikidata.org",
        retrieved: "2026-11-08",
    },
])

Examples

import { OWN_SOURCES } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/door";

console.log(OWN_SOURCES.map((source) => `${source.id}: ${source.licence.name}`));
[
  'yale-bsc: Public domain',
  'ucac4: UCAC4 terms of use',
  'wikidata-deep-sky: CC0 1.0'
]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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