King Fahd Cultural Centre - Planetarium

Public shows at King Fahd Cultural Centre - Planetarium: Check the schedule

Public hours for King Fahd Cultural Centre - Planetarium are not confirmed in the list. Many planetariums at schools and universities run public shows only on set nights; the official site has the schedule.

Al Hada, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 11553. Phone +966 1480-0837.

King Fahd Cultural Centre - Planetarium has a 18 m (59 ft) dome and 208 seats

That makes it a mid-size dome, typical of science museums and large universities. 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 Goto GM-II-AT, an optical instrument that shines pinpoint stars through a ball of lenses, the classic planetarium sky.

How dark the real sky is outside King Fahd Cultural Centre - Planetarium

King Fahd Cultural Centre - 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.

King Fahd Cultural Centre - Planetarium among the planetariums of Saudi Arabia

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 Saudi Arabia for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to town center of Riyadh, 11553 (approximate): 24.688°N, 46.722°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near King Fahd Cultural Centre - Planetarium

No dark sky place, public observatory, club or star party on the list is near King Fahd Cultural Centre - Planetarium.

King Fahd Cultural Centre - Planetarium record

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