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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

ScreenPointtype

A place on the page's screen, in pixels from its top left corner. The page's projection writes into one of these so that nothing is allocated for each star.

Import it

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

Definition

interface ScreenPoint {
    x: number;
    y: number;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
xnumber
ynumber

Examples

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

const spot: ScreenPoint = { x: 640, y: 360 };
console.log(spot.x, spot.y);
640 360

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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