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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

Reference

Map projections for sky charts

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

Exports

Name	Kind	What it is
`MapPoint`	type	A point on the chart.
`project`	function	Where a point of the sky lands on the chart.
`Projection`	type	The kinds of projection.
`ProjectionOptions`	type	How to place and size the chart.
`PROJECTIONS`	constant	The projections: the five that show a hemisphere or less, then the two that show the whole sky.
`SkyPoint`	type	A point on the celestial sphere, in degrees.
`unproject`	function	The sky position under a point of the chart: the inverse of `project`, with the same `options`.

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