Gonbad-e Mina Planetarium

Public shows at Gonbad-e Mina Planetarium: Yes

Fulldome and sky shows; space festival events. 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.

Ab-o-Atash Park, Abbasabad, Tehran, Iran.

Gonbad-e Mina Planetarium has a 18 m (59 ft) dome and 195 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 projection system is the RSA Cosmos ISS 2C 4K 3D, 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 Gonbad-e Mina Planetarium

Gonbad-e Mina 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.

Gonbad-e Mina Planetarium among the planetariums of Iran

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 Iran for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Ab-o-Atash Park, Abbasabad, Tehran (approximate): 35.758°N, 51.421°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Gonbad-e Mina Planetarium

Other planetariums within 150 km

• National Geographical Organization PlanetariumTehran, Iran, 7 km (4 mi), 10.0 m dome

No dark sky place, public observatory, club or star party on the list is near Gonbad-e Mina Planetarium.

Gonbad-e Mina Planetarium record

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