Education and Outreach Section Newsletter Edition 3 – August 2025

Two people and a telescope looking at the sky with Text E and O Newsletter edition 3 2025I’m delighted to say that our third Education and Outreach Section Newsletter has now been published.

The content includes:

  • From the Editor
  • Welcome from the Section Director
  • Section Get Together
  • A Guide to Education and Outreach Activities – Andy Devey
  • Job Vacanies which might be of interest
  • Grant Funding Opportunity – Royal Astronomical Society
  • International Astronomical Union – Education and Outreach
  • Back to Basics Event – Cardiff 7 June 2025
  • Reflections on Volunteering at Back to Basics
  • Work Experience Pilot Project
  • A Live Telescope Feed from Spain via Zoom
  • Questions – Getting Children Involved in Astronomy
  • Students Aid James Webb Space Telescope Observations of an Interstellar Comet
  • WYAS and BAA Link Up for Young Astronomers’ Session
  • Seestars and Students
  • My Mobile Planetarium
  • Sungazing on the Green – Part 2
  • Towpath Tales – May to July 2025
  • Helios at Dyffryn Gardens
  • Cardiff Astronomical Society Celebrates 50 Years

We hope you enjoying reading it!

We welcome your feedback and ideas for new content.

If you have any education or outreach activity you’d like to share, or great resources you’ve found, then the deadline for the next edition is 31 October 2025.  Please email your content to the editor Alexandra Hart at eando@britastro.org.

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