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  2. Nautical star - Wikipedia

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    The nautical star is a symbolic star representing the North Star, associated with the sea services of the United States armed forces and with tattoo culture. It is usually rendered as a five-pointed star in dark and light shades counterchanged in a style similar to a compass rose. In Unicode, this symbol is in the dingbats block as U+272F ...

  3. List of stars for navigation - Wikipedia

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    Equatorial stars. The equatorial region of the celestial sphere's eastern hemisphere includes 17 navigational stars from Alpheratz in the constellation Andromeda to Denebola in Leo. It also includes stars from the constellations Cetus, Aries, Taurus, Orion, Canis Major and Minor, Gemini, and Hydra.

  4. Compass rose - Wikipedia

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    Compass rose with the eight principal winds. A compass rose, sometimes called a wind rose, rose of the winds or compass star, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west) and their intermediate points. It is also the term for the graduated ...

  5. Sailor tattoos - Wikipedia

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    Sailor tattoos are traditions of tattooing among sailors, including images with symbolic meanings. These practices date back to at least the 16th century among European sailors, and since colonial times among American sailors. People participating in these traditions have included military service members in national navies, seafarers in ...

  6. International maritime signal flags - Wikipedia

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    International maritime signal flags. International maritime signal flags are various flags used to communicate with ships. The principal system of flags and associated codes is the International Code of Signals. [1] Various navies have flag systems with additional flags and codes, and other flags are used in special uses, or have historical ...

  7. List of symbolic stars - Wikipedia

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    Five-pointed star, a pentagram with internal line segments removed. Lute of Pythagoras, a pentagram-based fractal pattern. Hexagram, a six-pointed star polygon. Heptagram, a seven-pointed star polygon. Octagram, an eight-pointed star polygon. Enneagram, a nine-pointed star polygon. Decagram, a ten-pointed star polygon.

  8. Nautical almanac - Wikipedia

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    Nautical almanac. A nautical almanac is a publication describing the positions of a selection of celestial bodies for the purpose of enabling navigators to use celestial navigation to determine the position of their ship while at sea. The Almanac specifies for each whole hour of the year the position on the Earth's surface (in declination and ...

  9. Pyxis - Wikipedia

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    The host star is a yellow star of spectral type G9V that has 69% of our Sun's luminosity, 89% of its diameter and 105% of its mass. Around 119 light-years away, it shines with an apparent magnitude of 8.08 and is around a billion years old. [43] HD 73267 b was discovered with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) in 2008.

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