Run your own projects
These are all activities you can carry out on own, or with schools, families, community groups and tourism businesses.
To plan ahead for stargazing activities, use our guides to the night sky.
Star Umbrella Activity
This is a fun activity and a great starter for younger children and the young-at-heart. Make your own mini planetarium!
Star Umbrella Activity Sheet [PDF/704 KB]
Things Are Looking Up
This booklet is a guide to astronomy for beginners, including teachers and other educators.
Things Are Looking Up Booklet [PDF/3.15 MB]
Starcounts and Light Pollution Surveys
How dark are the skies where you live? You can find out, and then compare where you live with other places in the world, with the Globe at Night (link) starcount project. The darker your sky, the more stars you'll be able to see. You can also carry out light pollution surveys.
Dark Sky Discovery Sites
There is a new network of Dark Sky Discovery Sites growing around the UK.
Constellation projects
These are school or community projects. They have been run across
Northern Scotland as the Highland Constellation Project, and also on the Isle of Luing[Adobe pdf, 259Kb].