New Zealand Embassy Staff Visit the U.S. Naval... 06.29.2022 | Photo by Geoffrey Chester New Zealand's Naval Attaché, Miltary Attaché, and embassy support personnel visit the Naval Observatory on June 29, 2022.
National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) Finalists Visit... 06.22.2022 | Photo by Geoffrey Chester Washington, DC, 22 June 2022 Five students from Lexington (MA) High School, the third-place winners in the 2022 NOSB competition, toured the U.S....
Foreign Military Attaches Visit U.S. Naval Observatory 05.17.2022 | Photo by Geoffrey Chester Washington, DC, 2022 MAY 17 Foreign military attaches gather on the steps of the U.S. Naval Observatory before their tour of the historic facility.
Lantern Slide 41: View of the front of the old... 02.17.2021 | Photo by Morgan Aronson Lantern Slide 41: View of the front of the old observatory taken in 1964.
Lantern Slide 33: Present view of location of the... 02.17.2021 | Photo by Morgan Aronson Lantern Slide 33: Present view of location of the Braddock Stone with old observatory grounds in view.
Lantern Slide 22: A drawing of Washington in the... 02.17.2021 | Photo by Morgan Aronson Lantern Slide 22: A drawing of Washington in the late 1800s.
Lantern Slide 6: The Capitol Building as seen from... 02.17.2021 | Photo by Morgan Aronson Lantern Slide 6: The Capitol Building as seen from Pennsylvania Avenue in 1831. While this was being built, Congress met in the “Brick...
Lantern Slide 65: The 1874 Transit of Venus party... 02.17.2021 | Photo by Morgan Aronson Lantern Slide 65: The 1874 Transit of Venus party at the Old Observatory. The 26-inch refractor building in the background. Admiral Davis is...
Speckle Interferometry at the U.S. Naval Observatory 07.21.2020 | Video by Geoffrey Chester Dr. Rachel Matson of the U.S. Naval Observatory's Celestial Reference Frames Department gives a brief explanation of the technique of Speckle...
New Zealand Embassy Staff Visit the U.S. Naval... 06.29.2022 | Story by Geoffrey Chester New Zealand's Naval Attaché, Miltary Attaché, and embassy support personnel visit the Naval Observatory on June 29, 2022.
U.S. Naval Observatory Welcomes Foreign Military... 05.17.2022 | Story by Geoffrey Chester Washington, DC, 2022 May 17 Twenty international military attaches toured the U.S. Naval Observatory's Washington, DC campus.
CAPT Hartwell F. “Rip” Coke, USN becomes 58th... 01.12.2022 | Story by Geoffrey Chester U.S. Naval Observatory hosts Change of Command.
CAPT David R. Kuehn, USN becomes 57th... 10.25.2019 | Story by Geoffrey Chester Captain David R. Kuehn, USN, assumed his duties as the 57th Superintendent, United States Naval Observatory (USNO) on 2019 October 25.
