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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

starWheelPosterfunction

A wheel to cut out of a big poster: the disc and the plate side by side, as one SVG string measured in millimetres, diameterMm across each. Give it to kazoku-ui's tilePoster to cut it over several pages.

Import it

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

Definition

function starWheelPoster(latitude: number, options?: { diameterMm?: number; lang?: Lang; type?: "kid" | "normal"; }): { svg: string; widthMm: number; heightMm: number; }

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
latitudenumber

Degrees north (negative south).

options (optional){ diameterMm?: number; lang?: Lang; type?: "kid" | "normal"; }

diameterMm (default 400), lang and type.

Returns

{ svg: string; widthMm: number; heightMm: number; }

The <svg> markup and its size.

Examples

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

const poster = starWheelPoster(50, { diameterMm: 400 });
console.log(poster.widthMm, poster.heightMm, poster.svg.includes('data-cut="plate"'));
810 406 true

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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