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Night sky highlights - May 2026
May’s night sky brings a rare blue moon, meteors from Halley’s Comet, and a strange galactic hamburger. We’ll also explore Coma Berenices and use it to find star clusters and distant galaxies.
Making Waves: Dr Dawn Wright
Oceanographer and chief scientist Dr Dawn Wright on diving to the deepest part of the ocean – and why we need to stand up for our blue planet
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Astronomical and navigational instruments
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Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
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Astronomical Diagrams
astronomical t&e: planetarium
astronomical t&e: telescope
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: napier's bones
Diptych dial
documentary artifact: drawing, technical
documentary artifact: globe, moon: selenographis
documentary artifact: model, telescope
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Horizontal sun and moon pedestal dial
Lunar Globe
Lunar globe
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Napier's bones
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personal symbol: coat of arms
Pocket chronometer.
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Selenographia
Sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
Table globe
Technical drawing
timekeeper: chronometer, pocket
timekeeping t&e: dial, fixed: dial, moon
timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, diptych
water transport: sailing vessel: barque
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boxwood
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ivory
leather
metal: brass: Brazillian rosewood - Dalbergia nigra (CITES)
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Addison, John
Antiques of Science & Technology
Apollodoro, Francesco
Bean, Alan LaVern
Calle, Paul
Central Research Institute
Denoyer-Geppert
Earnshaw, Thomas
Emslie, John
Everett, (Herbert Barnard) John
Lesel, Michael
Lunasphere Productions Ltd.
Pether, Henry
Ramsden, Jesse
Reynolds, James
Robusti, Domenico
Russell, John
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Wightman, A. J.
Wilkins, Hugh Percival
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Apollo Programme, 1961-1972
Napoleonic Wars: Capture of the Admiral Jawl, 1808
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Admiral Yawl (1808)
Birkdale (1892)
Sappho (1806)
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Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
The Moon
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Blackwood, Capt
Denoyer-Geppert
Galilei, Galileo
Langford, Georgefl
National Museum of the Royal Navy
Ommaney, John
Pugh, Florence Isabelle
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Lunar table globe (Table globe)
Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 (Painting)
Neil Armstrong (Print)
630 (Pocket chronometer.)
The Thames and Greenwich Hospital by moonlight (Painting)
Map of the Moon (Map)
Napier's bones
The Wightman Lunaglobe (Lunar Globe)
The Feather and the Hammer (Print)
Diptych dial
Lunar table globe (Table globe)
Seascape by moonlight (Painting)
The Moon (Drawing)
Selenographia (Lunar globe)
Horizontal sun and moon pedestal dial
Galilean model telescope (Model telescope)
Sextant
Orrery
Astronomical Diagrams (Print)
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