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

FaintFieldtype

A round patch of sky, in degrees: its middle and its radius.

Import it

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

Definition

interface FaintField {
    rightAscension: number;
    declination: number;
    radius: number;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
rightAscensionnumber
declinationnumber
radiusnumber

Examples

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

const orion: FaintField = { rightAscension: 83.8, declination: -5.4, radius: 3 };
console.log(orion.radius);
3

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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