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 31: Virginia Avenue and Foggy Bottom... 02.17.2021 | Photo by Morgan Aronson Lantern Slide 31: Virginia Avenue and Foggy Bottom around 1940.
Lantern Slide 39: Old Naval Observatory, viewed... 02.17.2021 | Photo by Morgan Aronson Lantern Slide 39: Old Naval Observatory, viewed from the north; about 1935.
Lantern Slide 25: View of the Washington Channel,... 02.17.2021 | Photo by Morgan Aronson Lantern Slide 25: View of the Washington Channel, Hain’s Point, and the 14th Street bridge. Reclamation for the point was begun in 1890.
Lantern Slide 7: Gate-keeper’s house for the C &... 02.17.2021 | Photo by Morgan Aronson Lantern Slide 7: Gate-keeper’s house for the C & O Canal. It was put up in 1835 at the eastern terminus of the canal. At the present it serves...
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.