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	Royal Greenwich Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), which was built as a workplace for the Astronomer Royal, was on a hill in Greenwich Park in Greenwich, London, overlooking the River Thames.
		Although the Astronomer Royal moved to the castle in 1948, the scientific staff could not move until the completion of new observatory buildings in 1957.
		Greenwich Mean Time was at one time based on the time observations made at Greenwich, before being superseded by Coordinated Universal Time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Greenwich_Observatory (516 words)

	Greenwich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greenwich (pronounced 'gren-itch' [ˈgrɛnɪtʃ], or [ˈgrɪnɪtʃ] by the locals) is a town, now part of the south eastern urban sprawl of London, on the south bank of the river Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich.
		Greenwich Mean Time was at one time based on the time observations made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, before being superseded by Coordinated Universal Time.
		The observatory is situated in Greenwich Park, which used to be the grounds of the Royal Palace of Placentia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greenwich (785 words)

	Greenwich Hospital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Greenwich Hospital was founded in 1694 as the Royal Naval Hospital for Seamen and occupied its prime riverside site on the south bank of the river Thames in Greenwich, London for over 170 years, closing in 1869.
		It was subsequently occupied by the Royal Naval College until it became one of the campuses of the University of Greenwich in 1998.
		Greenwich Hospital was built on the site of the Palace of Placentia, which had fallen into disrepair during the English Civil War and was finally demolished in 1694.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Greenwich_Hospital (764 words)

	The Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux
		Because of the importance of the establishment, and the fame of Greenwich, it was re-named the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux.
		Greenwich Mean Time was, and still is, known the world over and it was the RGO’s responsibility to provide a national time service and to generate the familiar six ‘pips’ which were then broadcast by the BBC.
		The problems that afflicted the RGO during the seventies and eighties were the same problems that were affecting society: uncertainty about the future, concerns about funding, adapting to new technology and a culture change to a more commercial way of thinking.
	www.cowbeech.force9.co.uk /RGO.htm (4485 words)

	Royal Greenwich Observatory on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		astronomical observatory established in 1675 by Charles II of England; formerly known as the Royal Observatory and located at Greenwich, it moved to Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, in 1946.
		The observatory is administratively responsible for the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, South Africa, where there is a 74-in.
		The Royal Greenwich Observatory also includes the Nautical Almanac Office, which publishes the national navigational almanacs, and is responsible for the national time service, on which is based the worldwide system of time zones.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/RoyalG1re.asp (455 words)

	Greenwich Mean Time - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich near London in England, which by convention is at 0 degrees geographic longitude.
		Theoretically, noon Greenwich Mean Time is the moment when the Sun crosses the Greenwich meridian (and reaches its highest point in the sky in Greenwich).
		Because of the Earth's uneven speed in its elliptic orbit, this event may be up to 16 minutes off apparent solar time (this discrepancy is known as the equation of time); but this is averaged out over the year through the use of the mean sun.
	open-encyclopedia.com /GMT (400 words)

	Royal Greenwich Observatory -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Greenwich is famous for its naval and military connections and its green spaces.
		The borough was established in 1965 by the amalgamation of the former metropolitan boroughs of Greenwich and Woolwich, excluding a small area north of the Thames.
		Early observatories consisted of relatively simple mechanical equipment used to measure the direction in which a celestial body was moving and its distance from the Earth.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9064281 (1012 words)

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		The Royal Greenwich Observatory ------------------------------- o Prior to 1948, the observatory at Greenwich (located on a hill back from the River Thames with a view of the London Docks) was known as the Royal Observatory.
		Greenwich Mean Time ------------------- o Greenwich Mean Time is a time scale based on the apparent motion of the "mean" sun with respect to the meridian through the Old Greenwich Observatory (zero degrees longitude).
		On 31 October 1998, the RGO was closed by the U.K. Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council as a cost-saving measure.
	gauss.gge.unb.ca /GMT.UT.and.the.RGO.html (1778 words)

	Greenwich - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Greenwich (pronounced 'Grenitch') is a town, now part of the southeastern suburbs of London in the postcode district SE10, on the south bank of the river Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich.
		The Royal Greenwich Observatory, originally built as a workplace for the Astronomer Royal, is located on a hill in Greenwich Park in Greenwich, London, overlooking the River Thames.
		The Royal Greenwich Observatory is now called the Royal Observatory Greenwich, and is part of the National Maritime Museum.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Greenwich (841 words)

	ROYAL GREENWHICH OBSERVATORY HERSTMONCEUX SCIENCE CENTRE \| HERSTMONCEUX EAST SUSSEX, ENGLAND \| MARITIME HISTORY ...
		The Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) was founded at Greenwich in London in 1675 by King Charles II but was moved just after the second world war in order to escape the lights and pollution of the city.
		RGO was also responsible for more routine work, involving the careful mapping of star positions, monitoring of solar activity and provision of a national time service.
		It was from the observatory's atomic clocks at Herstmonceux that the familiar 'six-pips' were sent by land-line to the BBC for broadcast.
	www.solarnavigator.net /royal_greenwhich_observatory_herstmonceux.htm (858 words)

	AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1939 Wooley was appointed Commonwealth Astronomer at the Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra.
		A large body of correspondence is calendared, and other pieces follow the arrangement of the deposit of the papers from the files as kept as working records of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
		There is some overlap between the Woolley papers and those of his predecessor, H. Jones [classmark RGO 9] and those of his sucessor as Director E. Burbidge [classmaark RGO 11].
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/6682.html (755 words)

	The Royal Observatory Greenwich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Charles II appointed John Flamsteed as his first Astonomer Royal in 1675 to devise ways of calculating time at sea--essential for the exploration and mapping of the globe.
		In 1884 the meridian (0° longitude) at Greenwich was chosen the world's Prime Meridian, from which East-West longitude and time zones are calculated.
		Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the time on the Greenwich meridian, used as the zero for longitudinal measurement, according to the Mean Sun.
	www.gmt2000.co.uk /meridian/place/plco0a1.htm (375 words)

	Mercury: The Royal Greenwich Observatory.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In an ASP Leaflet for July 1960, Alan Hunter discussed the history of England's Royal Observatory, which had recently been moved to Herstmonceux Castle after 283 years at its original site in Greenwich.
		Hunter, of the Observatory's staff, held optimistic views for the future of the Observatory; but that future was not to be as rosy as he expected.
		The Royal Observatory was founded in 1675 by King Charles II: "Told by his advisors that the position of the moon amongst the stars could in principle yield standard time and thence longitude, but in the current state of...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:63583931&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (173 words)

	In Memoriam: The Royal Greenwich Observatory, 1675-1998
		The Observatory was founded by King Charles II in 1675 to answer the most pressing scientific question of the time: how to navigate ships on the high seas.
		The Observatory also sent out expeditions to the four corners of the world to observe rare events such as total solar eclipses and transits of Venus which could be used to measure the scale of the Solar System.
		For 20 years the RGO provided expert technical support for the telescopes, including optics, mechanical engineering, electronics, computing, development of new detectors and the twice-yearly round of allocating and scheduling observing time to researchers from British universities.
	www.obliquity.com /astro/rgo.html (570 words)

	The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Royal Observatory was founded on the 22nd June 1675, by the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed.
		In 1884, the Greenwich meridian was chosen to act as the Prime Meridian of the world, marking 0°, with the meridian line running right through the site of Flamsteed's observatory.
		The view from the hill upon which the Royal Observatory stands, north past the Royal Maritime Museum, across the Thames towards Docklands.
	www.mykreeve.net /london/greenwich/royal_observatory (258 words)

	Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London SE10 : tourist information from TourUK
		Charles II set the Royal Observatory the task to find a solution to the problem of determining longitude at sea.
		A sum of £20,000 was promised and the prize was claimed by the clockmaker, John Harrison, in 1763.
		The group of buildings at the Observatory houses exhibitions charting the establishment of Greenwich Mean Time and the zero meridian.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_museums/royal_observatory1.htm (368 words)

	Royal Greenwich Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By international convention, the meridian line at Greenwich, which runs through the Royal Observatory telescope, marks 0° longitude and is the point from which all other lines of longitude are measured.
		Following the relocation of the INT to the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, RGO was relocated to Cambridge in 1988–90.
		In 1998 the Cambridge site was closed and the RGO merged with the Royal Observatory Edinburgh to form a new Astronomy Technology Centre on the Edinburgh site.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0005725.html (255 words)

	Greenwich Guide - Old Greenwich Royal Observatory
		The Greenwich Royal Observatory was founded by order of King Charles II to study astronomy and to fix longitude; see the page about the Prime Meridian.
		The oldest in the group of buildings comprising the observatory is Flamsteed House.
		The work of the Royal Greenwich Observatory was moved to Hurstmonceux Castle in Sussex in 1948, and from there to Cambridge at the end of the last decade.
	www.greenwich-guide.org.uk /observ.htm (331 words)

	Royalty free Photos and pictures of Greenwich Royal Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This Greenwich Royal Observatory image is part of the royalty free photos and pictures of London.
		High resolution 300dpi Greenwich Royal Observatory pictures and photos of can be used in some cases up to A3, nearly all pictures and photos can be reproduced up to A4.
		All royalty free Greenwich Royal Observatory photos and pictures have had a degree of sharpening added and are suitable for most publishing.
	www.royalty-free-pictures.com /product.php/380/0 (269 words)

	Greenwich Tourist Attractions - The Royal Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Royal Observatory was founded on 22 June 1675 by King Charles II, and was built specifically to do work which would help to solve the problem of finding longitude - one's exact position east and west - while at sea and out of sight of land.
		The Royal Observatory Greenwich is also the source of the Prime Meridian longitude O° 0' 0".
		The Royal Observatory Greenwich is located in Greenwich Park and is open from 1000-1700 daily.
	www.greenwichletting.co.uk /observatory.html (250 words)

	Frank Dyson Bibliography
		Papers are in the Royal Greenwich Observatory archives at Cambridge University.
		Meadows, A.J., Greenwich Observatory: The Royal Observatory at Greenwich and Herstmonceux, vol.
		Dyson, Frank, & A. Crommelin, “The Greenwich Observations of the Moon, 1751-1922,” MNRAS 83, 359 (1923).
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists/dyson/DysonRefs.html (486 words)

	Herstmonceux Castle - a photographic tour
		Herstmonceux was the second home of the Royal Observatory which was founded by King Charles II in 1675 at Greenwich, London.
		With a reliable clock that would keep 'Greenwich' time for weeks at sea which was produced by John Harrison in 1773, it was finally possible to calculate a vessels position.
		However by the early decades of the 1900s, Greenwich had become a suburb of London and was not an ideal location for telescopes which require pollution free skies (from both smog and light) in order to function efficiently.
	www.invectis.co.uk /herstmonceux (612 words)

	Harold Spencer Jones Bibliography
		Papers are in the archives of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at the Cambridge University Library.
		Meadows, A.J., Greenwich Observatory: The Royal Observatory at Greenwich and Herstmonceux, 1675-1975, vol.
		Spencer Jones, H., “The Determination of the Constant of Nutation from the Greenwich Latitude Variation Observations” MNRAS 98, 440-47 (1938) and 99, 211 (1939).
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists/SpencerJones/SpencerJonesRefs.html (1188 words)

	DCP: Royal Greenwich Observatory
		The zero line was set to run through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England.
		Photo #1 shows the Royal Observatory Complex, situated on a high hill on the outskirts of Greenwich.
		Instrument manufacturers could travel to Greenwich to calibrate their instruments to the standard British yard, other units of measure, and also to timing and altitude standards.
	www.confluence.org /confluence.php?visitid=6098 (478 words)

	Royal Greenwich Observatory concept from the Astronomy knowledge base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Royal Greenwich Observatory concept from the Astronomy knowledge base
		From the first, Directorship of the Observatory has entailed appointment as Astronomer Royal.
		In the 1980s the Observatory will lose its primary national status with the completion of the Northern Hemisphere Observatory in Las Palmas, the Canary Islands.
	www.site.uottawa.ca:4321 /astronomy/RoyalGreenwichObservatory.html (91 words)

	Royal Greenwich Observatory
		established in 1675 by Charles II of England; formerly known as the Royal Observatory and located at Greenwich, it moved to Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, in 1946.
		Royal Greenwich Observatory (The Hutchinson Dictionary of Science)
		Royal Observatory extension will teach the wonder of the night sky.(News) (The Independent (London, England))
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0842579.html (282 words)

	Royal Greenwich Observatory Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Royal Greenwich Observatory Persons List gives usernames for approximately 11000 astronomers.
		Royal Greenwich Observatory Places List gives telephone, telex, fax and e-mail addresses for observatories and astronomy departments worldwide.
		Royal Greenwich Observatory Postal Address List gives postal addresses for observatories and astronomy departments worldwide.
	www.cfht.hawaii.edu /~link/script.html (77 words)

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