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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

dotsSubtitlefunction

The meaning of a constellation's name, for the line under its title: Orion: the Hunter, or its reading in hiragana.

Import it

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

Definition

function dotsSubtitle(c: Constellation, lang: Lang): string

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
cConstellation

A constellation.

langLang

en or ja.

Returns

string

The line.

Examples

import { constellation } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/constellations";
import { dotsSubtitle } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/sheets";

console.log(dotsSubtitle(constellation("Ori")!, "en"), dotsSubtitle(constellation("Ori")!, "ja"));
Orion: the Hunter おりおんざ

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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