There is so much going on here at NAM about astronomy outreach that I have had to spread the news over two posts!

Lars Christensen indicated some of the many world-wide events that will be taking place to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy in 2009, while Steve Owen highlighted some of the UK plans. Events include the 100 hours of astronomy on April the 2nd-5th 2009, the cosmic diary blog, and the spring and autumn moon watches.

Douglas Pierce-Price highlighted the involvement of the European Southern Observatory, and asked everyone to vote for their favourite picture at the Catch a Star competition website. Douglas also announced that the astronomer’s hotel at the European Southern Observatory at Paranal in Chile (below) will feature in the next James Bond film – as the baddies lair!

To end the session, Rita Tojeiro highlighted the fun that was had in Scotland, during the Dark Sky Scotland series of events. Over 5000 people attended 35 events – even the occasional bad weather did not dampen the enthusiasm of visitors! Rob Hill finished the session encouraging people to attend the 2009 European Conference on Light Pollution, to be held in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

And finally, it was a announced that a gallery of images will be on display in Liverpool in June 2008 titled From Earth to the Universe.

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