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

WHEEL_LATITUDESconstant

The latitudes a wheel is made for: 20 to 70 degrees from the equator, north or south. A stereographic wheel for a place nearer the equator would need a disc far wider than any page.

Import it

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

Definition

const WHEEL_LATITUDES: { readonly min: 20; readonly max: 70; } = { min: 20, max: 70 } as const

Members

NameTypeDescription
min20
max70

Examples

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

console.log(WHEEL_LATITUDES.min, WHEEL_LATITUDES.max);
20 70

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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