 He was survived by his wife, two daughters, a son and a sister.A landbased robotic telescope on the island of Cefalonia in western Greece is named in his honor.The "Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos telescope", located within a former Hellenic Air Force communications station, has been utilized by Greek universities and The Eudoxos Project to advance Greek secondary education in introductory astronomy and physics laboratories for high school students.