Inside Sharjah planetarium: a 7 m (23 ft) dome, projector Konica-Minolta MS-8. Rows of seats are drawn from the seat count and the dome from its diameter.

Planetarium · Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Sharjah planetarium

Sharjah planetarium is a planetarium in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Sharjah planetarium has a 7 m (23 ft) dome.

Sharjah planetarium in brief

Public shows
Check the schedule
Dome
7.0 m
Projector
Konica-Minolta MS-8
Bortle class outside
Not yet rated

Public shows at Sharjah planetarium: Check the schedule

Public hours for Sharjah 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.

P.O. Box 5119, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Phone +971 6528-6227.

Sharjah planetarium has a 7 m (23 ft) dome

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 Konica-Minolta MS-8, an optical instrument that shines pinpoint stars through a ball of lenses, the classic planetarium sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Sharjah planetarium

Sharjah planetarium has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

1 mag 8.0 21.99+ 2 mag 7.5 21.89+ 3 mag 7.0 21.69+ 4 mag 6.5 20.49+ 5 mag 6.0 19.50+ 6 mag 5.5 18.94+ 7 mag 5.0 18.38+ 8 mag 4.5 18.00+ 9 mag 4.0
The Bortle scale. Each panel shows the class number, the faintest star the naked eye reaches at the zenith, and the darkest-edge sky brightness reading of that class in mag/arcsec².

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.

Sharjah planetarium among the planetariums of United Arab Emirates

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Observatory open to the public Planetarium

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 United Arab Emirates for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to town center of Sharjah (approximate): 25.337°N, 55.412°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Sharjah planetarium

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

  • Al Sadeem ObservatoryAl Wathba South, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 149 km (92 mi). Guided observatory tours and stargazing, about 2 hours; AED 300 adult, AED 100 ages 8-17; book online

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

  • Dubai Astronomy GroupDubai, United Arab Emirates, 39 km (24 mi). Meets Al Thuraya Astronomy Centre, Mushrif Park

Other planetariums within 150 km

Sharjah planetarium record

Every value in the planetariums dataset for Sharjah planetarium
ID1822
NameSharjah planetarium
AddressP.O. Box 5119
CityStateSharjah
CountryUAE
Phone+971 6528-6227
Image2568.jpg
Dome7
OpticalKonica-Minolta MS-8
Lat25.33737
Lon55.41206
LatLonSpottown center of Sharjah (approximate)
StatusOpen
StatusNoteUnverified; possibly the Higher Colleges of Technology Sharjah dome opened 2009
Sourceshttps://www.albayan.ae/across-the-uae/2009-11-10-1.490102

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