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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

nameRowsfunction

The rows of the index: the 5,080 bright stars and the 110 Messier objects, brightest and best-known first (by weight), as a fresh array of rows. For the NGC and IC objects see /names/ngc-ic.

Import it

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

Definition

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

Parameters

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

kinds: only rows of those kinds.

Returns

NameRow[]

The rows.

Examples

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

const rows = nameRows();
console.log(rows.length, rows[0].id, nameRows({ kinds: ["galaxy"] }).length);
5190 sirius 40

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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