PDO Planetarium (Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre)

Public shows at PDO Planetarium (Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre): Yes

Free shows in Arabic and English; 60 seats; next to Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre. 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.

Al Qurm, Saih Al Maleh Street, Muscat, Oman 113. Phone +968 2467-5542.

PDO Planetarium (Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre) has a 11 m (36 ft) dome and 60 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.

It runs an optical star projector, the Zeiss ZKP 3, together with a Uniview (five laser projectors) digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside PDO Planetarium (Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre)

PDO Planetarium (Oil and Gas Exhibition 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.

PDO Planetarium (Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre) among the planetariums of Oman

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 Oman for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Qurm, Muscat (approximate): 23.615°N, 58.475°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near PDO Planetarium (Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre)

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Oman Astronomy and Space SocietyMuscat, Oman, 12 km (7 mi)

PDO Planetarium (Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre) record

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