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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.

1 Leaders of HMNAO

1.1 Superintendents of the Nautical Almanac

• Thomas Young ( 1818– 1829) — physicist and polymath
• John Pond ( 1829– 1831) — Astronomer Royal
• W. S. Stratford ( 1831– 1853Events January 19 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome January 21 Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine January 29 Napoleon III marries the Spanish Countess Eugenie at the Tuileries March 4 Inauguration of US president Fra) — set up a central bureaucracy to replace the system of home-based computertower of a personal computer. A computer is a device for making calculations or controlling operations that are expressible in numerical or logical terms. While factually accurate, this definition and those found in other dictionaries are so broad that ths
• John Russell HindJohn Russell Hind ( May 12 1823 December 23 1895) was a British astronomer. He began his career at the Royal Greenwich Observatory under George Biddell Airy. He later succeeded W. Dawes as director of the private observatory of George Bishop. In 1853 he b ( 1853Events January 19 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome January 21 Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine January 29 Napoleon III marries the Spanish Countess Eugenie at the Tuileries March 4 Inauguration of US president Fra– 1891Events January 1 ? Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany January 20 James Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state. January 29 Liliuokalani proclaimed Queen of Hawaii March 9 ? 12 ? Powerful storm off England?s south coast;) — discovered a number of asteroidAn asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. An asteroid is an example of a minor planet (or planetoid , which are much smaller than planets. The asteroids are believed to be remnants of the protoplanetary disc which were nos in the earlier part of his career
• A. M. W. Downing ( 1891– 1910)
• Philip Herbert Cowell ( 1910– 1930) — best remembered for his work with Andrew Crommelin on the calculation of the orbit of Halley's Comet by numerical integration, in preparation for its return in 1910
• Leslie Comrie ( 1930– 1936) — a pioneer of numerical computation
• D. H. Sadler ( 1936– 1970)
• G. A. Wilkins ( 1970– 1989)
• B. D. Yallop ( 1989– 1996)