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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 · A names index for a search box: a row for each bright star and Messier object with its names in English and Japanese, designations, constellation, rank weight, an address-safe id and where to point, with lookup by id and by name

NAME_KINDSconstant

The kinds of row in the names index: star, cluster (open and globular), nebula (emission, reflection, planetary, supernova remnant), galaxy and other (an asterism, a double star Messier listed, a source that is none of those).

Import it

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

Also exported from: @johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/names/named, @johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/names/ngc-ic

Definition

const NAME_KINDS: readonly ["star", "cluster", "nebula", "galaxy", "other"] = ["star", "cluster", "nebula", "galaxy", "other"] as const

Examples

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

console.log(NAME_KINDS.join(", "));
star, cluster, nebula, galaxy, other

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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