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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

NearStarSourcetype

Where a value comes from: "BSC" the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, "GCTP" the Yale General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes, "2MASS" the Two Micron All Sky Survey, or "typed" a published value typed into the package (the companions that neither Yale table holds).

Import it

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

Definition

type NearStarSource = "BSC" | "GCTP" | "2MASS" | "typed";

Examples

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

const source: NearStarSource = nearStarByName("Proxima Centauri")!.sources.position;
console.log(source);
BSC

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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