Nehru Planetarium

Public shows at Nehru Planetarium: Yes

Daily sky shows in Hindi and English at Teen Murti Bhavan; part of the Prime Ministers' Museum and Library. 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.

Teen Murti House, New Delhi, India 110011.

Nehru Planetarium has a 15 m (49 ft) dome and 270 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.

It runs an optical star projector, the Ohira Megastar IIB, together with a Sky-Skan Definiti multichannel digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Nehru Planetarium

Nehru 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.

Nehru Planetarium among the planetariums of India

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 India for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Teen Murti Bhavan, Chanakyapuri (approximate): 28.603°N, 77.199°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Nehru Planetarium

Nearest dark sky places

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Leo PlanetariaNew Delhi, India, 4 km (3 mi), 5.0 m dome

Nehru Planetarium record

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