AAVSO Headquarters

The Clinton B. Ford Astronomical Data and Research Center

The Headquarters of the AAVSO are located in the split-level Clinton B. Ford Astronomical Data and Research Center office structure in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, just a stone's throw from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and next to Sky Publishing Corporation.

Here are housed the AAVSO's administrative, scientific, data processing, and variable star research facilities. With its own Internet site, the AAVSO is linked directly to astronomers, institutions and observers throughout the world.

• Directions, Maps, & Satellite Photographs
• C. Y. McAteer Library
• AAVSO Staff

The Clinton B. Ford Center was inaugurated in the afternoon of August 6, 1986 during the AAVSO 75th Anniversary Meeting. At the time of the inauguration, Dr. Clinton B. Ford held the office of Secretary of the AAVSO, was an avid observer, and donor of the new AAVSO Headquarters. After Dr. Ford took the podium to deliver a speech that recalled his long-time dream of a new and permanent home for the AAVSO, two presentations were made. First, a citation from Governor Michael S. Dukakis lauding Dr. Ford's efforts was read and presented by AAVSO Council President Thomas R. Williams, and then an elegant letter of congratulations from President Ronald Reagan was similarly delivered by Mr. Keith Danskin, AAVSO First Vice-President.

For more information on the 75th Anniversary of the AAVSO and the inauguration of the headquarters order a copy of Volume 15, Number 2 of the AAVSO Journal.