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DescriptionAstroclock-stereographic.png
Original summary: "i drew this using Illustrator to illustrate the stereographic projection used by astronomical clocks. This projection is from the North pole, whereas on astrolabes they usually used the South pole".
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19:01, 25 July 2015
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Cmdrjameson
Compressed with pngout. Reduced by 26kB (33% decrease).
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