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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

NameKindtype

One kind of row: star, cluster, nebula, galaxy or other.

Import it

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

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

Definition

type NameKind = (typeof NAME_KINDS)[number];

Examples

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

const kind: NameKind = NAME_KINDS[0];
console.log(kind);
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What it prints (run when this page was built)

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