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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

latitudeBandfunction

A band of ten degrees of latitude as words: 40° to 50° N or きた 40〜50ど.

Import it

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

Definition

function latitudeBand(latitude: number, lang?: Lang): string

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
latitudenumber

Degrees north (negative south).

lang (optional)Lang

en or ja.

Returns

string

The band the latitude lies in.

Examples

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

console.log(latitudeBand(43.7, "en"), latitudeBand(-33.9, "ja"));
40° to 50° N みなみ 30〜40ど

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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