Aryabhatt Planetarium

Public shows at Aryabhatt Planetarium: Yes

UP state planetarium; daily sky shows. 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.

Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India 244901. Phone +91 81760 07888.

Aryabhatt Planetarium has a 12 m (39 ft) dome

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 projection system is the Evans & Sutherland Digistar 4 Laser, a digital fulldome system that can fly the audience through the solar system as well as show the night sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Aryabhatt Planetarium

Aryabhatt 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.

Aryabhatt 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 town center of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh (approximate): 28.809°N, 79.025°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Aryabhatt Planetarium

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)Nainital, Uttarakhand, India, 74 km (46 mi). Weekday afternoon visits at Manora Peak; a few night viewing sessions near moonlit periods with prior permission

Aryabhatt Planetarium record

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