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ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition
See the world's greatest space photography at the National Maritime Museum
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Heritage Crafts Weekend
We're celebrating the heritage craft skills used to build and maintain Cutty Sark with drop-in activities
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Astronomers Take Over
This brand-new interactive gallery gives curious minds aged 4 to 104 the space to play, learn and explore!
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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 t&e: planetarium: orrery(part)
Diagram
documentary artifact: diagram
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, table
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial: globe, pocket
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timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, universal equinoctial
Universal equinoctial dial and armillary trigonometer
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Child, G.
Cooper, R
Ferguson, James
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Ferguson, James
Herschel, William
Petrus Plancius, Petrus
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Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe (Pocket globe)
The astronomical rotula (Diagram)
Orrery
The Four Wheel'd Orrery (Print)
A New Perspective Instrument, by Joseph Priestley of Bradford in Yorkshire (Print)
Universal equinoctial dial and armillary trigonometer
Celestial miniature globe (Miniature globe)
A machine for showing the Motions of the Earth and Phases of the Moon (Drawing)
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