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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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The sky seen from another star: positions, distances and brightness from there, with the Sun among the stars

import { … } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/sky-from";

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Exports

NameKindWhat it is
SeenSkytypeA list of seen stars, brightest first, with skipped: how many stars of the table could not be moved: they have no distance (a parallax of 0 or less) or, for a nearby star, no magnitude, or they lie nearer to the viewpoint than the error of its distance.
SeenStartypeOne star as seen from a viewpoint: where it is in that sky, how far, and how bright.
skyFromfunctionThe sky as seen from another star or point in space.
SkyFromOptionstypeThe options of skyFrom.
SkyFromViewpointtypeWhere a sky is seen from: a bright star, a nearby star (from /nearby), a name starByName finds, or a point { x, y, z } in parsecs on the J2000 equatorial axes with the Sun at the origin (x toward right ascension 0, z toward the north pole).

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