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ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 winners
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The hidden details in Turner's 'The Battle of Trafalgar'
Discover some of the intricacies within J.M.W. Turner’s monumental artwork, on display at the Queen’s House
A history of the Royal Observatory in six objects
Explore 350 years of the world-renowned institution and the people who worked there through six intriguing objects
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clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, Officer's
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clothing accessory: uniform insignia: scales
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Assistant Paymaster's
clothing accessory: uniform insignia: uniform, Clerk in Charge's
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documentary artifact: ship plan: displacement scale
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surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: scale, fathom(vin H)
surveying & navigational t&e: scale, gunters
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's: chart rule
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water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: recreation vessel: yacht
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner
water transport accessory: badge, boat
water transport accessory: scale, sounding machine
weights & measures t&e: computing instrument: plain scale
weights & measures t&e: scale, sizing(for measuring wooden planks or a shoemakers measure.)
weights & measures t&e: scale, weighing
weights & measures t&e: scales
woodworking t&e: scale(shipwrights)
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Ackermann, Rudolph
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Fedchenko
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Alacrity (1900)
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Chakdina (1951)
Lady of St Kilda fl.1837
Stirling Castle 1679
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Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Acland, Thomas Dyke
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Pawsey, M J W
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Star plotter time scale
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Royal Dockyard Battalion uniform: pattern 1847 (Scales)
Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1901-18 (Scales)
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Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1901 (Scales)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe scale)
Royal Marines uniform: pattern 1840 (Scales)
Engine indicator scale rulers
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