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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

labelHeightfunction

The height a line of text takes in pixels: 1.2 times its size.

Import it

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

Definition

function labelHeight(style: LabelStyle): number

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
styleLabelStyle

A complete look.

Returns

number

The height in pixels.

Examples

import { labelHeight, labelStyle } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/sky-labels";

console.log(labelHeight(labelStyle({ size: 20 })));
24

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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