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Conserving the H3 Timekeeper
Taking 19 years to build, H3 is John Harrison's third timekeeper designed to solve the longitude problem. It was removed from display for cleaning and research for a new chronometer catalogue. This...
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Measuring the Universe
This is the film from our micro exhibition 'Measuring the Universe: from the transit of Venus to the edge of the cosmos', showing 1 March–2 September 2012 at the Royal Observatory Greenwich....
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Jacob: the limitless sky
2012 has been another fantastic year for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, with more entries than ever before being submitted from all around the world.We visited three of our...
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Graham: a moment in time
2012 has been another fantastic year for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, with more entries than ever before being submitted from all around the world.We visited three of our...
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Chris: the transit of Venus
2012 has been another fantastic year for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, with more entries than ever before being submitted from all around the world.We visited three of our...
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Looking for Jupiter
In this educational video, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers Radmila and Brendan use a free computer program called Stellarium to find out where the planet Jupiter is in the night sky. They go on...
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Making star trails
In this educational video, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer Brendan simulates a photographic effect known as “star trails” without an expensive camera, and during the day. The same computer...
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Solar System in a box
In this educational video, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer Brendan recreates the Solar System in plasticine form to demonstrate the science of light and dark, and light and shadow in space....
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The Board of Longitude
Cambridge University Library and the National Maritime Museum have digitised the Board of Longitude archive and are now available to view online at cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/longitude. This film...
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The Board of Longitude: Making Maps
Cambridge University Library and the National Maritime Museum have digitised the Board of Longitude archive and are now available to view online at cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/longitude. The Board...
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The Board of Longitude: Making Greenwich the centre of the world
Cambridge University Library and the National Maritime Museum have digitised the Board of Longitude archive and are now available to view online at cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/longitude. This film...
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Alien worlds and the Doppler effect
In this educational video, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer Radmila demonstrates how the Doppler effect can be applied to finding planets orbiting distant stars in our galaxy called exoplanets....
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Moon Watch
In this educational video, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer Radmila shows how you can best find the Moon in the daytime sky and how you can demonstrate the changing phases of the Moon in the...
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Sam: capturing the transit of Venus
2013 has been another fantastic year for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, with more entries than ever before being submitted from all around the world.We visited three of our...
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Fredrik: sharing the magic of the northern sky
2013 has been another fantastic year for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, with more entries than ever before being submitted from all around the world.We visited three of our...
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Alan: revealing the changing Sun
2013 has been another fantastic year for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, with more entries than ever before being submitted from all around the world.We visited three of our...
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World Heritage Site Schools Film Project
Pupils from Alderwood Primary School take you on a tour of the Royal Observatory and show you their favourite bits of the site. This film was made with the help of students from St Thomas More and...
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What’s inside a black hole?
ROG astronomer Rad explains where black holes come from, how we know they’re there and the strange effects they have on surrounding matter. We also find out what would happen if ROG astronomer Liz...
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How big is the Universe?
ROG astronomer Liz shows us the expanding nature of the Universe and how this affects the light reaching us from distant galaxies, some of which will remain forever hidden from our view.Cast:Royal...
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How do we know how old the Sun is?
ROG astronomer Brendan explains how we determine the age of our Solar System from space rocks and how we can work out how long the Sun has left before it engulfs the inner planets.Cast:Royal...
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