More than 175 Years
of Contribution
to Research
and Society
The first Research Center in Greece and Southeastern Europe
The National Observatory of Athens is an research center operating under public law rules and procedures and is supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Ministry of Development and Investments.
The Center was established in 1842 offering since then its services to research, science and society. The National Observatory of Athens with its highly-skilled human resources and the important infrastructure plays today an important role in research in the fields of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space applications, Environment, Energy and Meteorology, Seismology and Geodynamics, at European and international level.
