List of Astronomy Outreach Resources in Europe

This is a List of Astronomy Outreach Resources in Europe originally started as an initiative within the framework of the Astronet EU FP7 project.

Scientific institutions and Observatories

 * List of astronomical observatories (not only outreach)
 * IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach
 * European Southern Observatory (ESO)
 * ESO Science Outreach Network (ESON)
 * European Space Agency (ESA)
 * CERN outreach
 * Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain)
 * Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC, Spain)
 * Spanish National Observatory
 * Centre of AstroBiology (CAB-CSIC, Spain)
 * University of La Rioja (Spain)
 * Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Ireland)
 * Queen Mary Astronomical Observatory (UK)
 * University of Oxford Dept of Physics (UK)
 * Nottingham Trend University Observatory (UK)
 * University of Glasgow A&A group (UK)
 * Observatoire de Paris
 * Observatoire de Bordeaux
 * Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
 * GLObal Robotic-telescopes Intelligent Array (GLORIA Project)
 * EU-HOU network of demonstration radio telescopes
 * Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)
 * Educational resources of INAF (work in progress)
 * Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (Italy)
 * Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden)

National Astronomical Societies

 * List of astronomical societies
 * AstroWeb
 * Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA)
 * Royal Astronomical Society (UK)
 * Swedish Astronomical Society (Sweden)

Science Museums and Planetaria

 * International Planetarium Society
 * Haus der Astronomie Heidelberg
 * CosmoCaixa Barcelona (Spain)
 * The Observatory (Greenwich) Science Centre (UK)
 * The Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre (UK)
 * NUI Galway Centre for Astronomy (UK)
 * University of Cambridge Centre for Astronomy (UK)
 * Herschel Museum of Astronomy (UK)
 * National Museums Scotland (UK)
 * Deutsches Museum (Germany)
 * Cité de l’Espace Toulouse
 * Tycho Brahe Planetarium (Denmark)

Projects

 * Hands on Universe (EU-HoU)
 * EU Universe Awareness (UNAWE)
 * Europlanet
 * EuroVO AIDA project
 * Creative Space (UK)

Amateur astronomy groups

 * List of Amateur astronomy groups in Europe
 * AstroWeb (2007)
 * List of Amateur astronomy groups in Spain

Publications

 * The ESO Messenger
 * Revista AstronomíA (Spain)
 * Astronomy Now (UK)
 * Astronomie Magazine (France)
 * Populär Astronomi (Sweden)
 * TUIMP "The Universe In My Pocket", free astronomy booklets in many languages

Blogs, social networks, and resources on the web



 * Space and Astronomy websites
 * UNAWE Space Scoop
 * Henrietta Leawitt (videos, Spanish)
 * SpaceWeather
 * Blogs in Spanish
 * Radioastronomy from Home
 * Beginners Guide to Astronomy

Campaigns

 * Globe at night

Commercial companies, astronomical lodging, star parties

 * Astronomy events calendar
 * Turismo estelar (Spain)
 * European AstroFest 2015 (UK)
 * EducaCiencia.es (Spain)

Other resources

 * IAU network of contact points for outreach
 * IAU directory
 * IAU “Why is Astronomy important?”
 * Astronomy resources in Europe
 * Map of astronomical resources in project Radionet FP7