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Dr. Wolfgang Koberer,
She arrived in Jolly Harbor, Antigua on December 10th so it would be difficult 
to see her alongside the Cutty Sark right now.
Robert Gainer

>
> From: "Dr. Wolfgang Koberer"               
> Date: 2005/12/18 Sun AM 04:30:39 EST
> To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
> Subject: AW: Longitude of Greenwich Observatory
>
> And to the left you can see "Gipsy Moth IV" - the yacht that Sir Francis
> Chichester sailed around the world - in her concrete berth. She has recently
> been restored and returned to the place right next to "Cutty Sark". There is
> a website www.gipymoth.org where you can read more.
>
> Wolfgang Koberer
> (Another Google Earth addict)
>
> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Navigation Mailing List
> [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]Im Auftrag von Frank Reed
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Dezember 2005 05:56
> An: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
> Betreff: Longitude of Greenwich Observatory
>
>
> When you visit the old Royal Greenwich  Observatory, you can stand in line
> with the transit instrument's  building and put one foot on either side of a
> stripe in the paving stones  and get your photo taken "with one foot in East
> longitude and one foot in West".  My question is, with various revisions and
> refinements in the geodetic system,  is that precisely true today? That is,
> does
> zero degrees longitude still pass  right through that transit instrument's
> original mounting point by  definition?
>
> For fans of Google Earth (and if you're not a fan, you will  become one when
> you try it out!), the longitude displayed for this location is  0d 0' 05.36"
> W. Pretty close to zero, and I assume that the difference is  nothing more
> than
> the usual difficulty of registering aerial photography exactly  in lat/lon,
> but maybe the old RGO is drifting... By the way, if you go down to  the
> river
> from here in Google Earth, you can see the spars and even the shadows  of
> the
> shrouds on Cutty Sark.
>
> If you want Google  Earth:
> http://earth.google.com/
>
> And coincidentally, the lead story on  Sky & Telescope's web site this week
> is about the renovations and expansion  of exhibits at Greenwich:
> http://skyandtelescope.com/
>
> -FER
> 42.0N  87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
>

   

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