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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

whyFamousfunction

A short reason a constellation is worth finding, for the few that have one, else undefined.

Import it

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

Definition

function whyFamous(abbreviation: string, lang?: Lang): string | undefined

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
abbreviationstring

The IAU abbreviation (Cru).

lang (optional)Lang

en or ja.

Returns

string | undefined

A sentence, or undefined.

Examples

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

console.log(whyFamous("Cru", "en"));
The Southern Cross is on the flags of Australia, New Zealand and Brazil.

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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