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Drawing Mars
Grab your sketchbooks and venture to the Red Planet in this special drawing workshop
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Drawing the Moon
Grab your sketchbooks and venture to the Moon in this special drawing workshop
Royal Observatory | Venue Hire
The Royal Observatory Greenwich is the home of British astronomy, Greenwich Meantime, and the Prime Meridian of the world
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Sundials
For thousands of years, the sundial has told the time and divided the day.
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Which time is it?
Next time someone asks you the time, you may enquire if they want to know the atomic, universal, civil, local, solar or sidereal time
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Cutty Sark's main deck and ship's wheel
Do you have what it takes to steer 963 tons of Victorian tea clipper on the high seas?
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Explore the captain's cabin
Come aboard Cutty Sark and discover how the crew lived, where they ate, slept - and even where they went to the loo
Meet the captains of Cutty Sark
Who were the master mariners who captained the fastest ship of its time?
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Royal Observatory Greenwich Illuminates: Search for Life
Learn more about our search for life out in space in this talk given by Royal Observatory astronomers