Astrolabe Catalogue

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Small image of windrose. Click for full size.
Double (eight dark and eight light) eight-pointed star (with cardinal points labelled either with a symbol or a letter) at centre of square box. The stylised image to the right shows how the cardinal points are divided up in 32 different directions. The table below shows how the points are labelled on the actual windrose.
The windrose is labelled:
Direction Labelled
N None
S None
E None
W None
NE None
SE None
SW None
NW None
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