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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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The host stars of confirmed exoplanets worth a visit: place, distance, and each planet's name and orbital period

import { … } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/exoplanet-hosts";

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NameKindWhat it is
ExoplanettypeOne confirmed planet, as the NASA Exoplanet Archive gives it.
EXOPLANET_ARCHIVE_ACKNOWLEDGEMENTconstantThe acknowledgement the NASA Exoplanet Archive asks for in anything that uses its data.
EXOPLANET_HOST_LIMIT_LYconstantThe distance within which every host star with a known distance is in the table, in light-years.
ExoplanetHosttypeOne host star with its planets.
exoplanetHostByNamefunctionA host by a name, ignoring case and extra spaces: its name, its Japanese name, the Archive's name for it (Proxima Cen) or the name of one of its planets (TRAPPIST-1 e).
exoplanetHostsfunctionThe host stars of confirmed exoplanets, nearest first: the stars within 50 light-years whose distance the Yale tables give to 10% or better, the stars with an IAU proper name among those, and TRAPPIST-1.
ExoplanetHostSelectiontypeWhy a host is in the table: "near" (within 50 light-years), "named" (a star with an IAU proper name, farther) or "typed" (TRAPPIST-1, whose distance is typed from its papers).
ExoplanetHostSourcetypeWhere a value of a host star comes from: "BSC" the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, "GCTP" the Yale General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes, "2MASS" the Two Micron All Sky Survey, or "typed" a published value typed into the package (TRAPPIST-1's parallax, from its papers).

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