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Partial solar eclipse 2026 LIVE
Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich live online to watch the 90% partial solar eclipse visible from the UK
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How to see the 12 August 2026 partial solar eclipse
Learn more about the best solar eclipse visible from the UK and Ireland so far this century, when around 90-96% of the Sun will be covered by the Moon
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Base of pivots box
Box for compass
Box for the dry compass - surveying
Box strap for the dry compass - surveying
Compass bowl cover
Dip circle
Dip circle component
Dip needle
Dip needles
Dry card compass
Dry card compass box
Dry card compass box key
Dry card compass card
Dry compass
Dry compass - surveying
electrical & magnetic t&e: dip circle component
electrical & magnetic t&e: dip needle
Fragment of strap
Gunter's scales
Level
Lid of pivots box
meteorological t&e: thermometer
Pivots
Platform for the dry compass - surveying
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry(Admiralty standard)
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry(experimental)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, landing: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, sledge: compass, dry card(Arctic)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: cover, compass bowl
surveying & navigational t&e: level
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's
Surveying compass
Thermometer
Tripod
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
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Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
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Dent, Edward John
Dover, John
Henry Barrow & Co
Kater
Robinson, Thomas Charles
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London
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Antarctic Exploration: British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904
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Exploration: Challenger expedition, 1872-1876
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Collingwood (1841)
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Isabelle fl.1818
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Captain Johnson
Ross, Thomas
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Dry card compass card
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Dry card compass
Compass bowl cover
Dip needles
Dry card compass box key
Dry card compass box
Level
Dip circle
Dry compass
Dry compass
Tripod
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Base of pivots box
Box strap for the dry compass - surveying
Lid of pivots box
Dry compass - surveying
Dry card compass
Dry card compass
Fragment of strap
Box for the dry compass - surveying
Surveying compass
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