Links
Below are some websites you may find useful. If we have missed any, please get in touch.
Go Stargazing
Use Go Stargazing to promote your outreach events and increase public awareness.
Search for events and Astronomical Societies near you.
Thank to Neill from Go Stargazing for providing the feed to the website.
Astro Speakers
Astro Speakers has a great list of astronomy speakers from across the country.
Speakernet
Speakernet is has a wide range of topics including Astronomy. It will require a search.
Dark Skies Matter
Dark Skies Matter seeks to reduce the prevalence and harmful effects of unnecessary, artificial light and to protect fragile oases of natural darkness wherever they are still to be found.
Magazines
Education
- Association for Astronomy Education
- RAS Education Committee – competitions for schools and information leaflets.
- Links to a number of astronomy lessons
- Another set of astronomy education experiments
FAQs
Astronomy & Physics are covered here
Planets for Kids – Informative page for kids which provides information on the planets in our solar system.
Places to Visit
Below is a list of a few astronomy related atractions that are mostly across the UK.
Centro de Observacao Astronomica no Algarve – COAA
Coats Observatory – Strathclyde
Herstmonceux Science Centre in Sussex
Island Planetarium & Astronomy Resources Centre on the Isle of Wight
Jodrell Bank Science Centre and Arboretum
Mills Observatory – Dundee
National Maritime Museum – Greenwich
The National Space Centre in Leicester
Thinktank – Birmingham’s Science Museum
Norman Lockyer Observatory in Sidmouth, Devon
Spaceport – Liverpool
The Astronomy Centre in the Pennines on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border
Techniquest – Cardiff