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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 faint stars: about 3 million of UCAC4's, to magnitude 12, in sky tiles loaded for the part of the sky you show

FAINT_TILES_URLconstant

Where the tiles are by default: the package's GitHub Pages site. Every release's Pages build carries the tiles of that release in faint-tiles/, so the address does not change; to pin a version, or to keep the tiles on your own server, pass baseUrl.

Import it

import { FAINT_TILES_URL } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/faint";

Definition

const FAINT_TILES_URL: "https://johnmorrisdotca.github.io/hoshi-stars/faint-tiles/" = "https://johnmorrisdotca.github.io/hoshi-stars/faint-tiles/"

Examples

import { FAINT_TILES_URL } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/faint";

console.log(`${FAINT_TILES_URL}L0/9-0.bin`);
https://johnmorrisdotca.github.io/hoshi-stars/faint-tiles/L0/9-0.bin

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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