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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

NearStarDistanceSourcetype

Where the distance comes from: "GCTP" a measured parallax with an error, "BSC" the Bright Star Catalogue's own trigonometric parallax, or "dynamical" its parallax from the orbit of a binary.

Import it

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

Definition

type NearStarDistanceSource = "GCTP" | "BSC" | "dynamical";

Examples

import { nearStarByName, type NearStarDistanceSource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/near-stars";

const source: NearStarDistanceSource = nearStarByName("Sirius")!.sources.distance;
console.log(source);
GCTP

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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