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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 · Nearby stars: Proxima Centauri, Barnard's Star and about 5,600 more, with distance and error

NearbyMagnitudeKindtype

The kind of a V magnitude in the Yale catalogue: a photoelectric V, a visual or other magnitude of lower accuracy, or a photographic blue one.

Import it

import type { NearbyMagnitudeKind } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/nearby";

Definition

type NearbyMagnitudeKind = "photoelectric" | "visual" | "blue";

Examples

import { nearbyStarByName, type NearbyMagnitudeKind } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/nearby";

const kind: NearbyMagnitudeKind | undefined = nearbyStarByName("Barnard's Star")!.magnitudeKind;
console.log(kind);
photoelectric

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars 0.7.0.