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Wakusei Planets惑星

The Sun, the planets and their moons as a clean line drawing, a shaded realistic drawing or a painted surface map, with real sizes, tilt and rotation, and the moons where they are at any date and time.

Wakusei is the Japanese word 惑星 for a planet. About the name

Contents

Reference · The 5,080 stars you can see without a telescope: names, positions, proper motion, distance and colour (about 100 kB gzipped)

starByHrfunction

A star by its Bright Star Catalogue number.

Import it

import { starByHr } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/stars";

Definition

function starByHr(hr: number): Star | undefined

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
hrnumber

The HR number (Sirius is 2491).

Returns

Star | undefined

The star, or undefined if that number is not in this table (the table holds the stars to magnitude 6.0 only).

Examples

import { starByHr } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/stars";

console.log(starByHr(2491)?.name);
Sirius

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets 0.24.0.