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2. Nautical star - Wikipedia

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   Nautical star. 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.

3. List of stars for navigation - Wikipedia

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   Navigators often use star charts to identify a star by its position relative to other stars. References like the Nautical Almanac and The American Practical Navigator provide four star charts, covering different portions of the celestial sphere.

4. List of symbolic stars - Wikipedia

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   Heptagram, a seven-pointed star polygon; Octagram, an eight-pointed star polygon; Enneagram, a nine-pointed star polygon; Decagram, a ten-pointed star polygon; Hendecagram, an eleven-pointed star polygon; Dodecagram, a twelve-pointed star polygon; Magic star, a star polygon in which numbers can be placed at each of the vertices and ...

5. Compass rose - Wikipedia

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   An 8-point compass rose is a prominent feature in the logo of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club. Hong Kong Correctional Services's crest uses a four-pointed compass rose. The compass rose is used as the symbol of the worldwide Anglican Communion of churches. [22] A 16-point compass rose was IBM's logo for the System/360 product line.

6. Celestial navigation - Wikipedia

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   A diagram of a typical nautical sextant, a tool used in celestial navigation to measure the angle between two objects viewed by means of its optical sight. Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator to accurately determine their actual current physical position in space or on the ...

7. Category:Star symbols - Wikipedia

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9. Nautical almanac - Wikipedia

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   The positions of 57 selected stars are specified relative to the First Point of Aries. In Great Britain, The Nautical Almanac has been published annually by HM Nautical Almanac Office, ever since the first edition was published in 1767. [1] [2] In the United States, a nautical almanac has been published annually by the US Naval Observatory ...