Some recommendations from CAP2010

For various reasons I couldn't make the CAP2010 conference taking place this week in South Africa. Fortunately some cool astronomy outreach experts (@carolune, @starstryder, @ivie97, @AstroMeg) have been tweeting away on #CAP2010 and here are some of their web recommendations.

News About...

• SAAO Press release www.saao.ac.za
• Emerging Fields: Astronomy Communications and Education starstryder.com

IYA 2009 Materials

• Reaching out to Children with UNAWE: www.unawe.org
• Traing up teachers: galileoteachers.org
• Teaching with the Galileoscope: teachingwithtelescopes.org
• CoolCosmos featuring journalist in residence: www.coolcosmos.net

General

• UNIVIEW - the best visualisation of the cosmos: www.scalingtheuniverse.com/video.php
• Pub Astronomy (as in talking astronomy over a pint of beer): www.pubastronomy.com
• House of Astronomy in Heidelbergyis galaxy shaped: http://www.bernhardtundpartner.de/daten/bauten/hda/hda.html
• A movement to tackle light polluted night skies in Hong Kong: nightsky.physics.hku.hk
• State of the astronomy job market: blog.professorastronomy.com/2010/03/state-of-astronomy-job-market.html
• World Space week sends messages into space: www.worldspaceweek.org/sentforever
• CEA-Saclay Visualisations: irfu.cea.fr/Sap/index.php
• New museum with 3D theate: www.museedesconfluences.fr/
• Five Ways to do Science at home: National Geographic feature - bit.ly/9RS3Sb

Science

• Hinode Movies: solarb.msfc.nasa.gov/news/movies.html
• Nasa Lunar Science Institute vimeo channel: vimeo.com/nlsi
• Jodcast is longest running science podcast: www.jodcast.net

Cultures

Asia

• Japanese graphics brings richness to IYA: www.astronomy2009.jp/en/japan_projects.html
• Indonesian Astronomy: langitselatan.com

Africa

• African Night Skies www.twanight.org/newTWAN/galleries.asp?Sort=Region&Value=Africa

Australasia

• Examples of Australian Aborigonal Astronomy Artwork - www.emudreaming.com
• Ilgarijiri - things belonging to the sky: ilgarijiri.wordpress.com and astronomy.curtin.edu.au/ilgarijiri
• Sydney Aboriginal Art: www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rnorris/SydneyRockArt/index.html

Americas

• Mexico create a body of national astrophotography: www.nochedeestrellas.org.mx/estrellas_2010
• Canada and cultural stories of the night sky mixing traditional and professional: www.storiesofthenightsky.ca

Letting me know...

If you are there and I have missed something then send me a link via my astroviz twitter account.

Finally, many of the linked pages are not in English. I recommend using the latest version of Google Chrome with its automatic page translate functionality.