Over the past 400 years, however, active research has fallen behind. To reverse this trend, the head of the Taipei City Observatory, Tsai Jang-hsien, has been devoting his time and efforts to rekindling interest in astronomy.
為了使我們中斷、沒落了四百多年的天文學再度發揚光大，三十多年來，台北市立天文台台長蔡章獻，一直在默默耕耘，盡其在我地貢獻力量。