I've never studied the HPD patches until just now, and am I seeing what you see?
(Pinder's screen grabs)
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It looks to me like there are, perhaps, four different sizes of white stars.
Of course HAWKINS is flanked by the two largest white stars.
Then there's the outer circle of white stars.
And there's an inner circle of white stars, a half-circle actually, forming a "U".
For clarity let me number the outer circle of 13 white stars like this: starting with #1 in the 12 O'clock position, proceeding clockwise around the circle to #13.
Now it seems to me that the stars around the bottom half of the outer circle are bigger than the stars around the top half of the circle.
The oddest thing is the pair of stars forming the terminus of the lowest gold ray-lines, #4 and #11. One of this pair seems to match the smaller stars around the top half of the circle, the other seems to match the larger stars around the bottom half of the circle. Specifically, #4 is smaller than #11.
Four of the five white stars that form the inner U-shaped half-circle are larger, like the stars around the bottom half of the outer circle. The middle white star, resting on the gold torch-handle, is the smallest star on the patch.
All that aside, when I look over the large number of different HPD patches available I see a surprising number of different ways of getting the patch wrong.
Some follow this, which perhaps is the official image? With the stars too small as Pinder has mentioned
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This is the closest one I see now online, on Amazon, sold by Minimum Mouse. It has the dark blue, the gold rays connecting to six of the stars, and the very small white star on the torch-shaft
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