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Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made at the U.S. Naval Observatory (v. 1–22: 1862–1880) Observations made at the U.S. Naval Observatory (v. 1–7: 1887–1893) Publications of the U.S. Naval Observatory, Second Series (v. 1–16: 1900–1949) U.S. Naval Observatory Circulars [43] The Astronomical Almanac
The Astronomical Almanac [1] is an almanac published by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office; it also includes data supplied by many scientists from around the world.On page vii, the listed major contributors to its various Sections are: H.M Nautical Almanac Office, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office; the Nautical Almanac Office, United States Naval Observatory; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
Astronomical Almanac (specific title); Astronomical Ephemeris (generic article); Almanac (generic article); Nautical almanac (generic article); The Nautical Almanac (familiar name for a specific series of (official British) publications which appeared under a variety of different full titles for the period 1767 to 1959, as well as being a specific official title (jointly UK/US-published) for ...
Since 1958, the USNO and HMNAO have jointly published a unified nautical almanac, The Astronomical Almanac for use by the navies of both countries. [2] Almanac data is now available online from the US Naval Observatory. [3] [4] Also commercial almanacs were produced that combined other information. A good example would be Brown's, which ...
In 1897, Asaph Hall Jr. married Mary Estella Cockrell who he later had two children with, Katherine and Mary. Outside of his actual astronomical work, Hall also was influential in securing fair pay for the other workers around him at the U.S. Naval Observatory. [2]
Two sample pages of the 2002 Nautical Almanac. The Nautical Almanac has been the familiar name for a series of official British almanacs published under various titles since the first issue of The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for 1767: [1] this was the first nautical almanac to contain data dedicated to the convenient determination of longitude at sea.
The United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS), is an astronomical observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona, US. It is the national dark-sky observing facility under the United States Naval Observatory (USNO). [1] NOFS and USNO combine as the Celestial Reference Frame [2] manager for the U.S. Secretary of Defense. [3] [4]
The Navy Precision Optical Interferometer (NPOI) is an American astronomical interferometer, with the world's largest baselines, operated by the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Lowell Observatory. The NPOI primarily produces space imagery and astrometry, the latter a major ...