HM Nautical Almanac Office
- HM Nautical Almanac Office
Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO), now part of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, was established in 1832 on the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), where "the Nautical Almanac" had been published since 1767.
In 1937 it became part of RGO and moved with it, first to Herstmonceux, near Hailsham in East Sussex in 1948, then to Cambridge in 1990. When RGO closed in 1998 HMNAO was transferred to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire. In April 2006, it was announced that HMNAO would become part of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, which is based in Taunton in Somerset.
Leaders of HMNAO
uperintendents of the Nautical Almanac
*Thomas Young (1818–1829) — physicist and polymath
*John Pond (1829–1831) — Astronomer Royal
*W. S. Stratford (1831–1853) — set up a central bureaucracy to replace the system of home-based computers
*John Russell Hind (1853–1891) — discovered a number of asteroids in the earlier part of his career
*A. M. W. Downing (1891–1910)
*Philip Herbert Cowell (1910–1930) — best remembered for his work with Andrew Crommelin on the calculation of the orbit of Halley's Comet by numerical integration, in preparation for its return in 1910
*Leslie Comrie (1930–1936) — a pioneer of numerical computation
*D. H. Sadler (1936–1970)
*G. A. Wilkins (1970–1989)
*B. D. Yallop (1989–1996)
Heads of HM Nautical Almanac Office
*A. T. Sinclair (1996–1998)
*P. T. Wallace (1998–present)
Publications
*"The Astronomical Almanac" (jointly with the United States Naval Observatory)
*"The Nautical Almanac" (jointly with the USNO)
*"Astronomical Phenomena" (jointly with the USNO)
*"The Star Almanac"
*"The UK Air Almanac"
External links
* [http://www.nao.rl.ac.uk HMNAO]
* [http://www.nao.rl.ac.uk/nao/history/super.html List of Superintendents and Heads of HMNAO]
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