Points of the compass "X "al" Y" (X to Y) or "X "per" Y" (X by Y). There are no irregularities to trip over; the closest principal wind always comes first, the more distant one second, for example: north-by-east is ""Quarto di Tramontana verso Greco""; and northeast-by-north is ""Quarto di Greco verso Tramontana"". The table below shows how the 32 compass points are named. Each point has an angular range of 11.250 degrees where: middle azimuth is the horizontal angular direction (from north) of the given compass bearing; minimum is the lower angular limit of the compass point; and maximum is the upper angular
Compass rose easily seen from Earth with the naked eye. The other thirty points on the sidereal rose were determined by the rising and setting positions of fifteen bright stars. Reading from North to South, in their rising and setting positions, these are: The western half of the rose would be the same stars in their setting position. The true position of these stars is only approximate to their theoretical equidistant rhumbs on the sidereal compass. Stars with the same declination formed a "linear constellation" or "kavenga" to provide direction as the night progressed. A similar sidereal compass was used by Polynesian