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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

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

starPositionfunction

Where a star is at a moment: its J2000 position carried forward (or back) by its proper motion in a straight line. The frame stays J2000, so precession to the date is not applied: use the result with J2000 coordinates, or convert it to the date with /coordinates. A straight line is good to a fraction of an arc-second for centuries for nearly every star here; it is not good for the few with large motion over millennia.

Import it

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

Definition

function starPosition(star: Star, when?: When): { rightAscension: number; declination: number; }

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
starStar

A star.

when (optional)When | undefined

The moment as a Date or milliseconds since 1970 (UTC); J2000 when left out.

Returns

{ rightAscension: number; declination: number; }

Right ascension and declination in degrees, J2000 frame, at that moment.

Examples

import { starByName, starPosition } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/stars";

const now = starPosition(starByName("Arcturus")!, Date.UTC(2026, 10, 7));
console.log(now.declination.toFixed(3));
19.168

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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