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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

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Reference · What you can see tonight: the stars above the horizon of a place and a moment that the Sun's light, the sky's darkness and the air still let through, with the twilight, each star's altitude and azimuth and how easy it is to see

SkyLimittype

The darkness of the site, as a preset or a limiting magnitude: the faintest star seen at the zenith in the dark.

Import it

import type { SkyLimit } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/tonight";

Definition

type SkyLimit = "city" | "suburb" | "rural" | "dark" | number;

Examples

import type { SkyLimit } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hoshi-stars/tonight";

const limit: SkyLimit = "suburb"; // or a number, such as 5.2
console.log(limit);
suburb

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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