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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

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Reference · The 73 star systems within 20 light-years, with names in English and Japanese, place, distance, companions and the source of each value

NEAR_STAR_LIMIT_LYconstant

The distance this table goes to, in light-years: a system whose primary is nearer than this, with its distance known to 10% or better, is in.

Import it

import { NEAR_STAR_LIMIT_LY } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/near-stars";

Definition

const NEAR_STAR_LIMIT_LY: 20 = 20

Examples

import { NEAR_STAR_LIMIT_LY, nearStars } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/near-stars";

console.log(NEAR_STAR_LIMIT_LY, nearStars().every((s) => s.lightYears <= NEAR_STAR_LIMIT_LY));
20 true

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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