A list of notable groups devoted to promoting astronomy research and education.
International
- International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- International Meteor Organization
- Network for Astronomy School Education
- The Planetary Society
Africa
Asia
China
India
- Akash Mitra Mandal
- AstronEra
- Astronomical Society of India
- Bangalore Astronomical Society (BAS)
- Confederation of Indian Amateur Astronomers
- IUCAA
- Jyotirvidya Parisanstha
- Khagol Mandal
- Khagol Vishwa
- Wonders of Universe
Turkey
Thailand
Europe
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Norway
Poland
Russia
- Russian Astronomical Society (1891-1932)
- Астрономо-геодезическое объединение [ru]
- Eurasian Astronomical Society (1990-)
Serbia
United Kingdom
- Airdrie Astronomical Association
- Astronomical Society of Edinburgh
- Astronomical Society of Glasgow
- Astronomy Centre
- British Astronomical Association
- Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society
- Federation of Astronomical Societies
- Kielder Observatory Astronomical Society
- Liverpool Astronomical Society
- Manchester Astronomical Society
- Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society
- Northumberland Astronomical Society
- Nottingham Astronomical Society
- Royal Astronomical Society
- Society for Popular Astronomy
- Society for the History of Astronomy
North America
Canada
Mexico
United States
- Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh
- American Association of Variable Star Observers
- American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- American Meteor Society
- Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers
- Astronomical League
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Escambia Amateur Astronomers Association
- Indiana Astronomical Society
- Kaua‘i Educational Association for Science and Astronomy
- Kopernik Astronomical Society
- Louisville Astronomical Society
- Milwaukee Astronomical Society
- Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society
- NASA Night Sky Network
- SETI Institute
- Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society
- Southern Cross Astronomical Society
Oceania
Australia
- Astronomical Society of Australia
- Astronomical Society of New South Wales
- Astronomical Society of South Australia
- Astronomical Society of Victoria
- Macarthur Astronomical Society
- Sutherland Astronomical Society
New Zealand
- Dunedin Astronomical Society
- Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand
- Whakatane Astronomical Society