Title: Hello Star
Author: sarahphp1
Published: <strong>Mis-Genver 17, 2017</strong>
Last modified: Mis-Genver 19, 2017

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# Hello Star

 By [sarahphp1](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sarahphp1/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hello-star.zip)

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## Description

Inspired by Hello Dolly, this plugin works as a reminder of which constellation/
star is visible for the current month.
 It shows information about the 88 officially
recognized constellations by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). If a constellation
has one of the 28 brightest stars, the line shown is designated with an ‘*’. It 
is a nice reminder for astronomy amateur developers like myself who wants to be 
reminded of the constellations and stars that are most visible in a given month.
You can view Nasa’s Picture of the Day, control the color of text and background
in the ‘Hello Star’ settings page under “Settings” menu.

I am using NASA API demo_key for retrieving the daily Picture of the Day (apod) 
image. The demo key has a very low rate limits, if you want to keep apod, I recommend
you get your own API key as described here:
 https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#demo_key-
rate-limits

For suggestions to make this plugin any better, you can find me on twitter at (http://
twitter.com/sarahphp1).

**Credits:**
 * Most of the information used in this plugin were taken from Chris
Dolan’s website: http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/ * and Wikipedia.*
Picture of the Day: Nasa apod API: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

## Installation

 1. Go to the ‘Add New’ plugins screen in your WordPress admin area
 2. Search for ‘Hello Star’
 3. Click ‘Install Now’ and activate the plugin
 4. OR: Clone the plugin from my github repo at: https://github.com/Sarahphp1/hello-
    star
 5. Use the Settings->Hello Star screen to change color of text and background

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Hello Star” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ sarahphp1 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sarahphp1/)

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## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hello-star/)
 * Tags
 * [admin panel](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin-panel/)[APOD](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/apod/)
   [astronomy](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/astronomy/)[hello dolly](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hello-dolly/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/hello-star/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ sarahphp1 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sarahphp1/)

## Support

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