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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

ngcIcRowsfunction

The rows of the NGC and IC objects that are not Messier objects (11,788), brightest first (an object with no magnitude comes after those with one), as a fresh array. The ids are ngc7000, ic434; the Messier objects are in /names.

Import it

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

Definition

function ngcIcRows(options?: { kinds?: readonly NameKind[]; }): NameRow[]

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
options (optional){ kinds?: readonly NameKind[]; }

kinds: only rows of those kinds.

Returns

NameRow[]

The rows.

Examples

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

console.log(ngcIcRows().length, ngcIcRows({ kinds: ["nebula"] }).length);
11788 351

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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