# 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, 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

* 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