Starnet

Elegant web-based astronomy written in JavaScript 🪐🌌

Structure

Codebase	Description
core	NodeJS Fastify API
client	React Application

Branches

• staging -> pr this branch for everything
• prod -> don't touch, this is what's running in prod

Data Sources

Source	Description
HYG 3.0	Database containing all stars in Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star, and Gliese catalogs (almost 120,000 stars)
DSO	Approximately 220K deep sky objects, mostly galaxies, but also all known NGC and IC objects
Constellation Lines	Stick figures used to depict the 88 astronomical constellations