Creating a Star Dial – Telling the Time from the Stars
A Guest Blog by Chloé. We stare up at the stars, eyes wide, I didn’t want to miss it this time! The children had shouted…
Tag: Greenwich
Why does the Gnomon on a Sundial Point South?
The pointy bit of a sundial is called a ‘gnomon’. It is the part that casts the shadow and in the northern hemisphere it points…
Great Circles
Don’t look at the photo just yet! Thanks to National Maritime Museum members who came to my talk in the planetarium at the Royal Observatory…
Amazing and Not-so-amazing Technology
The Gooleys went on a family mission to the Olympics on Tuesday. We were lucky enough to get tickets to see the women’s team gymnastics…