Bobek Children's Center - Observatory and Planetarium

Public shows at Bobek Children's Center - Observatory and Planetarium: Yes

Children's education center with observatory and small planetarium. 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.

114 Dostyk Ave, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Phone +7 (727) 299 72 37.

Bobek Children's Center - Observatory and Planetarium has a 10 m (33 ft) dome and 80 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 star projector is the Zeiss ZKP 4, an optical instrument that shines pinpoint stars through a ball of lenses, the classic planetarium sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Bobek Children's Center - Observatory and Planetarium

Bobek Children's Center - Observatory and Planetarium 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.

Bobek Children's Center - Observatory and Planetarium among the planetariums of Kazakhstan

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 Kazakhstan for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to town center of Almaty, Kazakhstan (approximate): 43.257°N, 76.928°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Bobek Children's Center - Observatory and Planetarium

No dark sky place, public observatory, club or star party on the list is near Bobek Children's Center - Observatory and Planetarium.

Bobek Children's Center - Observatory and Planetarium record

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