This is a very useful technique you show here... And I will absolutely use this.

What you could do to finalize this if you are a "total perfectionist" is - Expand appearance on the element - Ungroup it - Select the "thirteenth" star and simply hit "delete" to get rid of the overlapping star.

This way you have the twelve stars aligned in the circle, but you don't have the circle element nor the thirteenth star.

Just some extras....

Thanks a lot! Needed to finish a logo for a band but with dots instead of stars. Very helpful!

Cheers

It a great tutorial bit I was wondering if you could make the same effect with a rasterized image (placed from Photoshop)?

Thanks,

Thanks a lot - really usefull tutorial!