[h0ughy (David)]

I ask this question because our society (Newcastle Astronomical Society) is supporting a public viewing event for the transit of Mercury in November. We are planning a big event and even trying to get a local radio station to be there live for the event as well (we were lucky enough to have the local ABC radio broadcast live for the transit of Venus). But we will be balancing public viewing with Astronomy and data collection, timing for the first contact etc, and hope to take images every couple of minutes to make up a mini movie of the transit with date and time etc. I am having the day off for the event in order to achieve this goal.

So what is your society doing to promote Astronomy to the masses?