HMNAO

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 1980. When RGO closed in 1998 HMNAO was transferred to its present location.

Leaders of HMNAO

Superintendents 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
• J. R. Hind (1853-1891)
• A. M. W. Downing (1891-1910)
• P. H. Cowell (1910-1930) - best remembered for his work with A. C. D. Crommelin on the calculation of the orbit of Halley's Comet by numerical integration, in preparation for its return in 1910
• Leslie Crombie (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
• The Nautical Almanac
• Astronomical Phenomena
• The Star Almanac
• The UK Air Almanac

External link

• HMNAO