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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 · A star's profile: temperature, size, luminosity and disc size with their uncertainty, limb darkening, and the measured shapes of Altair, Regulus and Vega

RadiusBasistype

Where the radius comes from: "parallax" is worked out for this star from its distance, brightness and temperature; "type" is the typical radius of stars of its spectral type, used when the star's own distance is missing or too uncertain to beat it.

Import it

import type { RadiusBasis } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/profile";

Definition

type RadiusBasis = "parallax" | "type";

Examples

import type { RadiusBasis } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/profile";

const basis: RadiusBasis = "parallax";
console.log(basis);
parallax

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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