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Donald Sadler (700 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

promoted to Deputy Superintendent of the Office in 1933. Comrie left the Nautical Almanac Office in 1936. A decision was taken to move the Office to the Royal

Civil time (794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conventions, leading to ambiguity[clarification needed], whereas the Nautical Almanac Office at the United States Naval Observatory used GMT for the pre-1925

Simon Newcomb (3,586 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

becoming a human computer (a functionary in charge of calculations) at the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1857. At around the same time

Bureau of Navigation (United States Navy) (579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

supervising the US Naval Observatory, the Hydrographic Office, and the Nautical Almanac Office. It also had responsibility for the United States Naval Academy

William Lax (4,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Supposed Error in the Elements of Euclid (1807) and his work regarding the Nautical Almanac, which was an important reference for navigation in the period. An

Navigational algorithms (900 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The navigational algorithms are the quintessence of the executable software on portable calculators or Smartphone as an aid to the art of navigation, this

Edgar W. Woolard (504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

worked until the end of World War II. In 1945, he joined the staff of the Nautical Almanac Office at the United States Naval Observatory, where he served as

Lunar distance (navigation) (2,031 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

2007-08-02. The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the year 1767, London: W. Richardson and S. Clark, 1766 The Nautical Almanac Abridged for

Meridian altitude (601 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

time of meridian altitude of the heavenly object is extracted from the nautical almanac. A few minutes before this time the observer starts observing the

Azerbaijan Time (128 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

named Asia/Baku. Nautical Almanac Office (U.S.) (17 May 2013). The Nautical Almanac for the Year 2014. Government Printing Office. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-16-091756-1

Simone Daro Gossner (359 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1920–2002) was a Belgian-American astronomer specializing in eclipses at the Nautical Almanac Office of the United States Naval Observatory. Simone Daro was born

Robert Adolf Naef (96 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

he worked at the Urania Observatory in Zürich. In 1941 he created the nautical almanac Der Sternenhimmel. 1906 Naef, a stony asteroid named after Naef Observatory

Sethanne Howard (475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

astronomer and physicist. She most recently worked as the Chief of the Nautical Almanac Office at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. She is also

Armenia Time (257 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

zones Time in Europe Nautical Almanac Office (U S ) (17 May 2013). The Nautical Almanac for the Year 2014. Government Printing Office. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-16-091756-1

Astronomical symbols (6,482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 978-1-145-49244-8. The Nautical Almanac and the Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1834. 1833. p. xiii. The 1834 edition of the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical

Julena Steinheider Duncombe (376 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

women to the Nautical Almanac Office, the first 150 years", in Fiala, Alan D.; Dick, Steven J. (eds.), Proceedings of the Nautical Almanac Office Sesquicentennial

Hong Kong Time (807 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Common Time tz database Nautical Almanac Office (U S ) (17 May 2013). The Nautical Almanac for the Year 2014. Government Printing Office. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-16-091756-1

Solar azimuth angle (1,373 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first cosine formula gives one the tangent formula as is used in The Nautical Almanac. A 2021 publication presents a method that uses a solar azimuth formula

Longitude by chronometer (1,385 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

variation has been calculated and is listed for each day of the year in the Nautical almanac under the title of Equation of time. This variation must be added

Newcomb's Tables of the Sun (918 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

T2 Authors citing this expression include Borkowski (p. 12) and the Nautical Almanac Offices of the United Kingdom and United States (p. 98). Newcomb

Time in the Czech Republic (237 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

zones by UTC offset Nautical Almanac Office (U S ) (17 May 2013). The Nautical Almanac for the Year 2014. Government Printing Office. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-16-091756-1

Eliza Edwards (164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mother Mary Edwards, working on the Nautical Almanac. She lost her job in 1829, during the formation of the Nautical Almanac Office. She was paid by the Board

Time in Liberia (355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

States Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office (1 January 1968) The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1970. (1st edition). United States Government Publishing

List of stars for navigation (2,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a star by its position relative to other stars. References like the Nautical Almanac and The American Practical Navigator provide four star charts, covering

Israel Lyons (273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

selected by the Astronomer Royal to compute astronomical tables for the Nautical Almanac. Later, Banks secured Lyons a position as the astronomer for the

Gerald Maurice Clemence (1,153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

took twelve years. Wallace John Eckert was appointed as director of the Nautical Almanac Office in 1940 and immediately imported his enthusiasm for using

Ephemeris time (3,970 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ephemerides in the issues for 1960 and after. (But the ephemerides in the Nautical Almanac, by then a separate publication for the use of navigators, continued

Difference engine (4,391 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(88 lb). Burroughs Corporation in about 1912 built a machine for the Nautical Almanac Office which was used as a difference engine of second-order.: 451

Charles Mason (980 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he continued work on Mayer's Lunar Tables. He also contributed to the Nautical Almanac, working under Nevil Maskelyne, the fifth Astronomer Royal. On 27

New moon (1,840 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Almanac. University Science Books. ISBN 978-0-935702-68-2. Moon Watch site (Archived 2011-03-03 at the Wayback Machine) of the Nautical Almanac Office

Francis Baily (942 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eight years in the post are a record.[page needed] The reform of the Nautical Almanac in 1829 was set on foot by his protests[discuss]. He was elected

Flora Sadler (338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prepare for the expedition she spent the summer of 1935 studying at the Nautical Almanac Office (NAO), and in 1937 became the first woman scientist appointed

E. Myles Standish (536 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

officially used in the Astronomical Almanac (and in derived form, also in the Nautical Almanac) as the basis for the ephemerides of sun, moon and planets from 1984

Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

membership required.) "1892: A. M. W. Downing, Superintendent 1892–1910". The Nautical Almanac & Its Superintendents. HM Nautical Almanac Office. Retrieved 13 April

John Russell Hind (634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

George Bishop's Observatory. In 1853 Hind became Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, a position he held until 1891. Hind is notable for being one of

Conversion between Julian and Gregorian calendars (361 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

observed in the Roman Empire. This table is taken from the book by the Nautical almanac offices of the United Kingdom and United States originally published

John Pond (900 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

During the 1829-31 period, he briefly served as Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac. Delicacy of health obliged his retirement in the autumn of 1835

Vridni (947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the yardnumber 452 was, reportedly, a pontoon "A" built in 1906, The Nautical Almanac of the Ministry of Transport of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia for the

John Hellins (1,146 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of BD at Trinity College, Cambridge. Hellins at one time computed the Nautical Almanac. He later assisted at Greenwich and, furnished William Windham with

Johann Elert Bode (1,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wait until 1850 before gaining official acceptance in Britain when the Nautical Almanac Office switched from using the name Georgium Sidus to Uranus. In

Raphael's Ephemeris (624 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Connaissance de Temps, was published in France in 1679. In 1767 came the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, which is issued annually by the Royal

Albert A. Michelson (4,799 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

instructor in physics and chemistry until 1879. In 1879, he was posted to the Nautical Almanac Office, Washington (part of the United States Naval Observatory)

Tenerife meridian (545 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

support to the meridian. Also in 1787, the first Dutch translation of the Nautical Almanac was published. This almanac was one of the things that had spread

John Monroe Van Vleck (591 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University in 1876. From 1851 to 1853 he had been an assistant at the Nautical Almanac Office. He taught astronomy and mathematics at Wesleyan University

John Caulfield Hannyngton (406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Haversines Natural and Logarithmic Used in Computing Lunar Distances for the Nautical Almanac. John C. Hannyngton. Table of logarithms and anti-logarithms (four

Ex-meridian (829 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

S.G.S. Extra Master Norie's Nautical Tables, edited by Capt. A.G. Blance The Nautical Almanac 2005, published by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office

Sight reduction (1,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

relative location to the assumed point. The methods included are: The Nautical Almanac Sight Reduction (NASR, originally known as Concise Tables for Sight

William Hussey (astronomer) (663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

from the University of Michigan in 1889, he served as assistant in the Nautical Almanac Office of Washington. He soon returned to Ann Arbor as instructor

Peter Andreas Hansen (840 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

further recognized by a grant of £1000, and by their adoption in the Nautical Almanac as from the issue for the year 1862, and other Ephemerides. A theoretical

Constellation (5,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Donneés astronomiques de Strasbourg, February 1990). For example, in the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1833 (Board of Admiralty

Leslie Comrie (1,137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the predictions even further. He was promoted to Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac Office in 1930. However, his unconventional use of machines for calculation

Chauncey Wright (906 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Unitarianism. In 1852 he graduated from Harvard and became a computer to the Nautical Almanac. In college, he was mainly interested in science and mathematics

James Hann (388 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematician led to Hann's obtaining a situation as calculator in the Nautical Almanac Office. A few years later he was appointed writing-master, and then

David Peck Todd (1,020 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

life, Maxwell wrote to the astronomer David Todd (1855–1939), at the Nautical Almanac Office in Washington, D.C., asking whether the data on the eclipses

Tom Van Flandern (1,928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Branch and later becoming Chief of the Celestial Mechanics Branch of the Nautical Almanac Office. His espousal of highly non-mainstream beliefs, particularly

Calendar era (4,174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Naval Observatory and Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office (2000). The Nautical Almanac for the year 2001. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. p

Equation of time (8,627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

description of apparent and mean time was given by Nevil Maskelyne in the Nautical Almanac for 1767: "Apparent Time is that deduced immediately from the Sun

Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo (1,227 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Fox" in honor of the editor. With a compass, a sextant, a copy of the Nautical Almanac, oilskins and three sets of oars lashed safely in place, they set

Zodiac (6,482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the use of signs as astronomical coordinates may be found in the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1767. The "Longitude of the

Charles Hale (941 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

editor. He also contributed to the North American Review and to the Nautical Almanac. In 1855, Hale was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives

William Woolsey Johnson (578 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University where he received his BA in 1862. After two years serving in the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he began his academic career

Isabel Martin Lewis (922 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

prove essential to her later work. Lewis began work as a computer at the Nautical Almanac Office in 1908. Although Lewis was not the first woman to be hired

Charles E. Vreeland (1,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

USS Ashuelot and the sloop-of-war USS Ticonderoga. He then was assigned to the Nautical Almanac Office of the United States Naval Observatory in November 1881 after

Julian day (6,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was also the first to use the name "Julian day number" in 1918. The Nautical Almanac began in 1866 to include a Julian day for every day in the year of

Julian day (6,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was also the first to use the name "Julian day number" in 1918. The Nautical Almanac began in 1866 to include a Julian day for every day in the year of

Robert Burnham Jr. (2,518 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

own predictions by periodically checking planetary positions in the Nautical Almanac. Burnham and sabi: The indefinable mood which the Japanese call sabi

William Harkness (845 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

astronomical director of the Naval Observatory (1894–99) and director of the Nautical Almanac (1897–99). Harkness retired from the navy two days after attaining

Patrick Wayman (674 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wayman married Mavis McIntyre Smith Gibson. She had been working at the Nautical Almanac Office, RGO. The couple had two daughters, Sheila and Karen, and

Francis Beaufort (2,381 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

observatories at Greenwich, England, and the Cape of Good Hope, Africa, and the Nautical Almanac and Chronometer Offices, and Beaufort was responsible for the administration

Harold Spencer Jones (2,015 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

provided by the observatory. He took on overall responsibility for the Nautical Almanac Office. He obtained government agreement to move the observatory

Intercept method (2,437 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Extra Master Norie's Nautical Tables, edited by Capt. A.G. Blance The Nautical Almanac 2005, published by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office Navigation

N-body problem (8,459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, prepared jointly by the Nautical Almanac Offices of the United Kingdom and the United States of America. See

Henry D. Todd (951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

department, and captain as assistant director of publication for the Nautical Almanac. When he was appointed director, Todd received promotion to the relative

Discovery of Neptune (5,269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

circumstances, and Adams's memoir was printed as an appendix to the Nautical Almanac. However, it appears that the version published by Airy had been

Dominical letter (4,966 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

arXiv:1010.0765. Fotheringham, J. K. (1929). "Explanation: The Calendar". The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the year 1931. London: HMSO. Thurston

Versine (4,467 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Natural and Logarithmic, used in Computing Lunar Distances for the Nautical Almanac. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Cleveland Abbe (3,025 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

while in Cambridge that he rubbed shoulders with scientists from the Nautical Almanac, specifically, William Ferrel, which probably piqued his meteorological

Iver C. Weilbach & Co. (1,064 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Weilbach diversified into publishing maritime handbooks, notably the Nautical Almanac and the Fisheries’ Yearbook. Weilbach also became Danish agents from

Asia (1780 EIC ship) (1,932 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Navigation; Containing All the Tables Necessary to be Used with the Nautical Almanac in Determining the Latitude, and the Longitude by Lunar Observations

Ann Savage (astronomer) (390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Grammar School. After school she worked as a scientific assistant at the Nautical Almanac Office in Herstmonceux, Sussex, part of the Royal Greenwich Observatory

Date of Easter (13,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1837. It is also mentioned in the chapter on calendars (p. 744) in the Nautical Almanac of 1931 and in the Explanatory Supplement of 1992 (p. 582). So the

History of longitude (10,318 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

22 (2): 105–116. doi:10.1080/00033796600203075. ISSN 0003-3790. The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the year 1767 "The History of HM

Meanings of minor planet names: 12001–13000 (419 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the astronomical computations necessary for the preparation of the Nautical Almanac. The name was suggested by R. H. van Gent JPL · 12627 12628 Acworthorr

Myanmar Standard Time (1,220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Commerce. United States Nautical Almanac Office (17 May 2013). The Nautical Almanac for the Year 2014. Government Printing Office. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-16-091756-1

Jean Kovalevsky (1,798 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

website, NASA (cddis.nasa.gov). "Prix Janssen : M. Jean Kovalevsky". The Nautical Almanac for the Year. Nautical Almanac Office, United States Naval Observatory