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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 · A picture of each of the 88 constellations, in light and dark

thumbnailSvgfunction

One picture, drawn from outlines, lines and stars you supply: the outlines are framed in a square with room round them, the stars that belong to the figure are drawn in full and every other star in the frame faint, with the faint boundaries of the neighbours behind them. North is up and east is to the left, as the sky looks, and the stereographic projection keeps shapes. Each star of the figure is a <circle> with its data-hr, so a program can check it is inside the picture. There is no text in the drawing apart from its <title>.

Import it

import { thumbnailSvg } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/thumbnails";

Definition

function thumbnailSvg(input: ThumbnailInput, options?: ThumbnailOptions): string

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
inputThumbnailInput

What to draw.

options (optional)ThumbnailOptions

The look, the size and whether the neighbours are drawn.

Returns

string

A standalone SVG document as a string, a square of THUMBNAIL_UNITS units.

Examples

import { boundaryOf } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/boundaries";
import { figureOf } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/lines";
import { thumbnailSvg } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/thumbnails";

const figure = figureOf("Lyr");
const svg = thumbnailSvg({ title: "Lyra", outlines: boundaryOf("Lyr").outlines, segments: figure.segments, owns: (star) => star.constellation === "Lyr" }, { theme: "light" });
console.log(svg.startsWith("<svg"));
true

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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