funds

The following is a list of the AAVSO funds you can contribute to. If you do not wish to specify how you would like your donation to be used, AAVSO will use it however it is determined to have the greatest impact.

Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander is generally considered the father of variable star astronomy. He was the first astronomer to begin a careful study of variable stars. At the time, only a handful of variables were known, and he was responsible for introducing the modern system of naming them using the capital letters R-Z.