List of Astronomy Outreach Resources in Europe explained

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, Observatories, and National Scientific Societies

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

Magazines, publications, and resources on the web

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

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