Haya Cultural Centre

Public shows at Haya Cultural Centre: Yes

Children's cultural center with digital planetarium shows, library and activities. Check the official site for the current schedule and tickets before you go.

A planetarium show is the one astronomy outing that clouds and city lights cannot cancel. Most public shows run 30 to 50 minutes; live shows, where a presenter flies the sky to tonight's planets and constellations, are the best preparation for a night at a dark site. Shows often sell out on weekends and school holidays.

Ilya Abu Madhi, Amman, Jordan 11194. Phone +962 6-566-5195.

Haya Cultural Centre has a 11 m (36 ft) dome and 66 seats

That makes it a small dome, typical of schools, colleges and portable shows. The largest planetarium domes in the world are about 35 m across; a classroom dome is 5 to 8 m.

Its projection system is the Digitalis Education Digitalis Kappa, a digital fulldome system that can fly the audience through the solar system as well as show the night sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Haya Cultural Centre

Haya Cultural Centre has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Planetariums sit in towns, so the dome shows the sky the street outside cannot; the dark sky places nearby show the real one.

Haya Cultural Centre among the planetariums of Jordan

Pink dots are planetariums, green dots observatories open to the public, squares dark sky places and diamonds star parties; select one for its page. See Planetariums in Jordan for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Haya Cultural Centre, Shmeisani (Fulldome Database): 31.966°N, 35.897°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Haya Cultural Centre

Nearest dark sky places

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Bareket ObservatoryMaccabim-Re'ut, Central District, Israel, 82 km (51 mi). Pre-booked public evening events with telescope viewing, astrophotography nights, school programs
• Givatayim ObservatoryGivatayim, Tel Aviv District, Israel, 103 km (64 mi). Public lectures and observations once or twice a week; IAA lectures Thursdays

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Jordanian Astronomical SocietyAmman, Jordan, 5 km (3 mi)
• Israeli Astronomical AssociationGivatayim, Israel, 106 km (66 mi). Meets Givatayim Observatory, Givatayim

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Bareket ObservatoryModiin-Maccabim-Reut, Israel, 84 km (52 mi), 5.0 m dome
• Eretz Israel Museum (MUZA) PlanetariumTel Aviv, Israel, 105 km (65 mi), 12.0 m dome
• Netanya Planetarium (Netanya Foundation)Netanya, Israel, 106 km (66 mi), 8.0 m dome
• TechnodaHadera, Israel, 107 km (67 mi), 4.0 m dome
• Ramon Planetarium Center (Schoenbaum Campus)Kiryat Yam, Israel, 125 km (78 mi), 10.0 m dome

Haya Cultural Centre record

From the site's planetariums dataset (planetariumsglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.