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

NearStarFlagstype

What to be careful about for one system.

Import it

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

Definition

interface NearStarFlags {
    coarsePosition: boolean;
    ambiguousMatch: boolean;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
coarsePositionboolean

The position is the Yale catalogue's, carried from 1900 to 2000, not a 2MASS position: see positionErrorArcsec.

ambiguousMatchboolean

The match to the source is not clear: the star may also be one of the bright stars, or several 2MASS sources fit it.

Examples

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

const flags: NearStarFlags = nearStarByName("Lalande 21185")!.flags;
console.log(flags.coarsePosition);
true

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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