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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 · Printable sheets: connect-the-dots constellations, the constellations for a latitude, a star wheel to cut out and a sky map for each month

Standingtype

How a constellation stands at a latitude: always above the horizon (circumpolar), never seen from there, or season (up for part of the night and part of the year).

Import it

import type { Standing } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/sheets";

Definition

type Standing = "always" | "season" | "never";

Examples

import { type Standing } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/sheets";

const standing: Standing = "always";
console.log(standing);
always

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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