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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 · Stars: names, positions, distance and colour

starByNamefunction

A star by its common name (Sirius), its name in katakana (シリウス) or its designation (α CMa, 9 CMa), ignoring case.

Import it

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

Definition

function starByName(text: string): Star | undefined

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
textstring

The name or designation.

Returns

Star | undefined

The star, or undefined.

Examples

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

console.log(starByName("betelgeuse")?.designation, starByName("α Lyr")?.name, starByName("シリウス")?.hr);
α Ori Vega 2491

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars 0.7.0.