Talk:Royal Observatory, Greenwich

message: Narrowly a B class.
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—Yamara ✉ 15:56, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Rated Mid Importance; could be High, but that distinction might better belong to the article on the meridian itself. --Yamara ✉ 16:50, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: I believe there is a significant ommision in this article relating to the foundation of the Observatory, that being the driving force and leading role played by Sir Jonas Moore.  It was Moore who, in his role as Suveyor General at the Ordnance Office, proposed to establish a Royal Observatory in 1674, and, in Flamsteed's own words, persuaded King James II that the Observatory might be built with Flamsteed employed in it.  It was then the Ordnance Office that was responsible for building the Observatory, with Moore providing the key instruments and equipment for the observatory at his own personal cost.  Moore coninued to have much influence over the work carried out at the Observatory until his death in 1679.  The role played by Moore in establishing the Observatory was acknowledged in an inscription near the door, and on a plate within the grounds.  See Sir Jonas Moore; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . I will therefore add a reference to Moore in the main article under the History section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by BishopOdo (talk • contribs) 12:44, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: This page should be moved to Royal Observatory, Greenwich, as this is now the correct name of the institution that remains (with a redirect of course).
Unless there is dissent, I will move the page later this week. Rnt20 13:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Its fine where it is. Royal Greenwich Observatory is a far more likely search phrase than anything with a comma in it. MRSC 17:37, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, a move seems like a good idea, seeing as that is the correct, current name. Redirects will take care of anyone searching using other names. Vclaw 23:20, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 

message: The results of what exactly Nature suggested should be corrected is out... italicize each bullet point once you make the correction.   --  user:zanimum
* ‘The last time that all departments of the RGO were at Greenwich was before World War II.  Many departments were evacuated along with the rest of London to the countryside (Abinger, Bradford, and Bath) in 1939.’ – in fact, Magnetic & Meteorological Dept moved to Abinger in 1924 after the arrival of the railway at Greenwich which affected readings.  Then in WWII many of the instruments were put into storage for their safe keeping, with work at Greenwich scaled back to the bare minimum.
::*Corrected December 22 2005 and clarified 23 Dec. 2005.
* 'The castle now houses the International Study Centre …' – Herstmonceux Science Centre is housed in the Observatory buildings next to the castle, on the castle grounds, not in the castle itself.
::User:Nunh-huh took care of this--134.48.75.114 21:25, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I took a stab at this one. I'm still not crazy about the structure of the introduction, because the first sentence is stunted and now the paragraph seems to talk more about the Astronomer Royal than about the observatory itself, but at least it specifies that the position was created for the building, and not the other way around. 
Kafziel 03:33, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking further, the John Flamsteed article seems to be at odds with this: "On March 4, 1675 he was appointed by royal warrant "The King's Astronomical Observator" — the first British Astronomer Royal, with an allowance of £100 a year. In June 1675, another royal warrant provided for the founding of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and Flamsteed laid the foundation stone in August." So that article appears to be saying that the observatory was built for the Astronomer Royal. Hmmm. Kafziel 14:27, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

text: User:Nunh-huh took care of this one too.  ALKIVAR™ 06:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

text: User:Nunh-huh took care of this--134.48.75.114 21:25, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
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message: Why is it, if I search Royal Observatory, I don't get a redirect here?  Trekphiler 10:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a possiblility, if most people who type "Royal Observatory" are looking for this royal observatory, instead of the others on that disambiguation page. Of course, the dab would then be at the top of this page. — Joe Kress 09:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Linkup

message: This might be a good section to add with this question. How many places have the location of a zero meridian? When were they used also? I know the GPS readings have one, two for the observatories at Greenwich, and another for the observatory in Paris. John W. Nicholson (talk) 17:47, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of 0.00000? 

message: I notice that the COORD tag for the observatory is being placed 5.31 seconds west of the prime meridian. This is a bit surprising. Does anyone know why? --37.123.170.35 (talk) 13:24, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: A paper by Seago and Seidelmann presented at the 23rd AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting held February 10–14, 2013, Kauai, Hawaii explains why the center of the Airy transit is no longer at 0° longitude. This is available for free access from the company that created the software that was used in Seago & Seidelmann's calculation. The site is http://www.agi.com/resources/user-resources/downloads/white-papers.aspx, look for the title "The Mean-Solar-Time Origin of Universal Time and UTC". Jc3s5h (talk) 21:59, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the meridian or not? 

message: Is there a reason why this article's coordinates are ironically invisible to the API (and any service that uses it)? The coordinates show up at the top of the article, but this API query asking for coordinates doesn't get any back from Wikipedia. --Gapfall (talk) 20:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have mentioned this issue at Template talk:Infobox observatory#Possibly related issue at Royal Observatory, Greenwich talk page Jc3s5h (talk) 21:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:   I'm not sure what the issue is here, so I've raised this at Template_talk:Coord#Coordinates_not_available_through_API_when_fetching_them_from_Wikidata_through_this_template.3F. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:27, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latitude and longitude invisible to API 

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message: Hi! I visited the Observatory and I went crazy taking pictures. I have over 300 pics of everything outside and inside of it. We could make a great gallery. Should I upload the best ones? --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 14:27, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

message: Please add laser details from http://www.thegreenwichmeridian.org/tgm/articles.php?article=14
: The Meridian laser marks the route of the Greenwich Meridian by night in a northerly direction from the Royal Observatory. Under good viewing conditions, it is visible at a distance of over 36 miles with the naked eye and over 60 miles with binoculars... 5 Watts...
Jidanni (talk) 19:30, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add laser details 

message: An article on Mary Ward (https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/blogs/curators-blog/an-object-i-love-at-castle-ward-mary-wards-microscope) states 'Mary was also given special dispensation to visit the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in 1862 – a time when women were strictly prohibited.' This WP article makes no mention of women being prohibited, or when this was lifted. This was a common problem in the history of UK science, see for example Royal Astronomical Society which states fellowship for women was only allowed from 1915. I couldn't find a web reference to when attitudes changed at Greenwich, so please can suitable references be found and the article updated. John a s (talk) 06:22, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women prohibited 

message: The article is badly cluttered with too many images. To summarise MOS:IMAGES, they should illustrate, not decorate. The fact that most are oversized doesn't help. Unless anyone can make a case for the defence, I propose to move many of them down into the gallery. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 00:46, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: As a week has passed without comment, I will go ahead with this change. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 20:11, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image clutter