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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

faintTilePathfunction

Where a tile's file is, under the folder that holds the tiles: L2/17-12.bin.

Import it

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

Definition

function faintTilePath(tile: FaintTileId): string

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
tileFaintTileId

The tile.

Returns

string

The path, with forward slashes.

Examples

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

console.log(faintTilePath({ level: 2, band: 17, column: 12 })); // L2/17-12.bin
L2/17-12.bin

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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