Nestled in the rolling green hills of the English countryside is an important site in global astronomical history. But now, with its future uncertain, this historic site is at risk. Near the small ...

To fix this the Royal Observatory decided to set a standard time that everyone could set clocks to. This was called Greenwich Mean time(GMT). GMT became the only official time used in the UK ...

THE Royal Observatory was founded in the reign of ... moon among the stars according to the time of some fixed place, say Greenwich, the navigator can by observation of the moon determine the ...

In 1884, an international conference decided that the Prime Meridian, which runs through Greenwich, would be the starting point for timekeeping. The line runs through the Royal Observatory ...

Near the small town of Herstmonceux in the English county of East Sussex sits the former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The Royal Observatory Greenwich was first built in Greenwich ...

THE visitation of the Royal Observatory took place on June 4 ... and also between 24° and 32°, have recently been observed at Greenwich. The catalogue of the last-named region was distributed ...