Declination, which is measured as an angle, north is positive and south is negative. The declination of a star etc. is also the latitude at which the star passes overhead.
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A star often shows a nation's capital on a map.
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A star map shows the position of the stars as seen from the Earth, so making it useless when viewed from space.
Whatever the mapmaker wanted to use. One of the more common ones is a star circumscribed by a circle, but there's no reason a mapmaker couldn't use a dollar sign or some other symbol if he wanted.
"A Blank in the Weather Map" by Gerard Stembridge has 399 pages in total.
A Blank in the Weather Map was created in 1919-01.
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A star with a circle around it
A simple star on a map of the USA signifies the location of a state capitol. The national capital is typically a star with a circle around it.
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The cast of A Blank on the Map - 1971 includes: David Attenborough as Narrator Laurie Bragg as himself
It is usually depicted by a star with a circle around it.
A star on a map indicates a state or national capital.
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Capital Of a Country
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