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ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist
Explore some of the stunning images shortlisted in the world’s biggest astrophotography competition
Who was John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal?
Meet the man tasked with mapping the night sky from Greenwich, and discover how a feud with Isaac Newton shaped the early history of the Royal Observatory
The bombing of Rainbow Warrior: 40 years on
Forty years ago, the attack on the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior and death of photographer Fernando Pereira caused international outrage.
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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
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astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: protractor, sextant(combined sextant & protractor)
documentary artifact: globe, terrestrial
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Double box sextant box
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double quintant
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Sextant Protractor
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant telescope
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant(enlarged form of box sextant)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, pocket
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visual communication t&e: code, signal
water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)
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Cary
Cary, John
Cary, William
Stebbing, George
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Biscoe, John
Butler, Thomas
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Cook, James
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Petrus Plancius, Petrus
Phipps, G. J.
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Vancouver, George
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Double box sextant box strap
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