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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

Contents

Reference · Names on the brightest stars and the constellation figures as faint lines, for a sky you draw yourself: a count or a magnitude, the figure under the pointer at full strength, a body that covers part of the sky, and a look set by settings alone

LABEL_SIDESconstant

The places a name may take, in the order they are tried: right of its star, left, above, below.

Import it

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

Definition

const LABEL_SIDES: readonly ["right", "left", "above", "below"] = ["right", "left", "above", "below"] as const

Examples

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

console.log(LABEL_SIDES.join(", "));
right, left, above, below

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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