Upcoming Events

Meetings times as of now will be on Tuesdays around 10:00pm at the Heyden Observatory.

Father Francis J. Heyden, S.J., came to Georgetown in 1945 from the Manila Observatory, and in 1948 assumed directorship of the Observatory here. From that time until the closing of the Astronomy Department in 1971, the fame of the Observatory increased dramatically. The eclipse expeditions were continued with great success, and research in solar and planetary spectroscopy was begun. A graduate program was instituted, growing eventually to be the largest such department in this country.