Skip to the content

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

SkyViewtype

The part of the screen names may use, in pixels. A name is kept only when the whole of it lies inside, margin pixels from each edge.

Import it

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

Definition

interface SkyView {
    width: number;
    height: number;
    margin?: number;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
widthnumber
heightnumber
margin (optional)number | undefined

The space kept clear at each edge, in pixels. 4 by default.

Examples

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

const view: SkyView = { width: 1280, height: 720, margin: 8 };
console.log(view.width);
1280

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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