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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 names index for the NGC and IC objects that are not Messier objects, in a chunk of their own

findNgcIcfunction

The NGC or IC row a name or number names exactly (NGC 7000, North America Nebula, ic 434), or undefined.

Import it

import { findNgcIc } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/names/ngc-ic";

Definition

function findNgcIc(text: string): NameRow | undefined

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
textstring

What was typed.

Returns

NameRow | undefined

The row, or undefined.

Examples

import { findNgcIc } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/names/ngc-ic";

console.log(findNgcIc("North America Nebula")?.id);
ngc7000

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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