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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 · Map projections for sky charts

PROJECTIONSconstant

The projections: the five that show a hemisphere or less, then the two that show the whole sky.

Import it

import { PROJECTIONS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/projection";

Definition

const PROJECTIONS: readonly ["stereographic", "orthographic", "gnomonic", "equidistant", "equirectangular", "mollweide", "hammer"] = ["stereographic", "orthographic", "gnomonic", "equidistant", "equirectangular", "mollweide", "hammer"] as const

Examples

import { PROJECTIONS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/projection";

console.log(PROJECTIONS.join(", "));
stereographic, orthographic, gnomonic, equidistant, equirectangular, mollweide, hammer

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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