Planetarium Date

Now one of my favorite things too, not just for a date but just for fun, is stargazing. You probably have seen our stargazing date and know how easy it is to have a romantic time between you, your partner, and the sky. But not every has access to the beautiful night sky. That's where planetariums come in. Additionally, planetariums offer much more of a guided tour through the sky, so if you're not confident in your star mapping abilities, they are a fantastic choice.

There are currently over 350 planetariums in the United States, with each state having at least one. Each one is unique in pricing and the type of show offered, so step one is to do your research and pick the show that would be best for you. Some have shows during the morning and afternoon, others are only at night. Find your state and then find the city closest to you.

Alabama

Christenberry Planetarium (Birmingham)

UNA Planetarium (Florence)

Wernher von Braun Planetarium (Huntsville)

JSU Planetarium (Jacksonville)

W.A. Gayle Planetarium (Montgomery)

Sea, Sand, & Stars Planetarium (Orange Beach)

Alaska

Thomas Planetarium (Anchorage)

UAA Planetarium (Anchorage)

Marie Drake Planetarium (Juneau)

Arizona

Dorrance Planetarium (Phoenix)

Arizona State University Planetarium (Tempe)

Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium (Tucson)

Arkansas

UCA Planetarium (Conway)

U. of Arkansas Planetarium (Fayetteville)

UALR Planetarium (Little Rock)

Pomeroy Planetarium (Monticello)

California

Cabrillo Planetarium (Aptos)

William M Thomas Planetarium (Bakersfield)

Holt Planetarium (Berkeley)

Roth Planetarium (Chico)

Southwestern College Planetarium (Chula Vista)

Orange Coast College Planetarium (Costa Mesa Cupertino)

Downing Planetarium (Fresno)

Samuel Oschin Planetarium (Los Angeles)

U.C.L.A. Planetarium (Los Angeles)

Great Valley Museum Planetarium (Modesto)

Modesto Junior College Planetarium (Modesto)

Donald E Bianchi Planetarium (Northridge)

Ask Jeeves Planetarium (Oakland)

Pasadena City College Planetarium (Pasadena)

Los Menéanos College Planetarium (Pittsburg)

Diablo Valley College Planetarium (Pleasant Hill)

Schreder Planetarium (Redding)

University of Redlands Planetarium (Redlands)

RCC Planetarium (Riverside)

Sierra College Planetarium (Rocklin)

Discovery Museum Science & Space Center (Sacramento)

J. Frederick Ching Planetarium (Salinas)

George F. Beattie Planetarium (San Bernardino)

Reuben Fleet Science Center (San Diego)

CCSF Planetarium (San Francisco)

Charles F. Hagar Planetarium (San Francisco)

Morrison Planetarium (San Francisco)

Rosicrucian Egyption Museum & Planetarium (San Jose)

Coastal Planetarium (San Luis Obispo)

Palomar College Planetarium (San Marcos)

College of San Mateo Planetarium (San Mateo)

Tessmann Planetarium (Santa Ana)

Gladwin Planetarium (Santa Barbara)

John Drescher Planetarium (Santa Monica)

SRJC Planetarium (Santa Rosa)

West Valley College Planetarium (Saratoga)

El Camino College Planetarium (Torrance)

Victor Valley College Planetarium (Victorville)

Mt SAC-Randall Planetarium (Walnut)

Harbor College Planetarium (Wilmington)

Colorado

Zacheis Planetarium (Alamosa)

Fiske Planetarium and Science Center (Boulder)

Gates Planetarium (Denver)

Steele Planetarium (Denver)

Fort Lupton High School Planetarium (Fort Lupton)

Christa McAuliffe Planetarium (Pueblo)

Connecticut

Henry DuPont Planetarium (Bridgeport)

Treworgy Planetarium (Mystic)

New Canaan High School Planetarium (New Canaan)

Leitner Family Planetarium (New Haven)

UConn Planetarium (Storrs)

Travelers ScienceDome Planetarium (West Hartford)

Wickware Planetarium (Willimantic)

Washington D.C.

Albert Einstein Planetarium (Washington)

Rock Creek Nature Center & Planetarium (Washington)

Delaware

Ralph Hazelton Planetarium (Dover)

Starwalk Planetarium (New Castle)

Florida

Bishop Planetarium (Bradenton)

St. Petersburg College Planetarium (Clearwater)

EFSC Planetarium (Cocoa)

Buehler Planetarium (Davie)

Calusa Nature Center & Planetarium (Fort Myers)

Hallstrom Planetarium (Fort Pierce)

Kika Silva Planetarium (Gainesville)

Bryan-Gooding Planetarium (Jacksonville)

Astronauts Memorial Planetarium (Kennedy Space Center)

Frost Museum of Science & Planetarium (Miami)

Space Place Planetarium (Miami)

Emil Buehler Planetarium (Sanford)

Riverview High School Planetarium (Sarasota)

Navigators Planetarium (St. Augustine)

Challenger Digital Dome Planetarium (Tallahasee)

Pat Thomas Planetarium (Tallahassee)

The Saunders Planetarium (Tampa)

Marvin Dekelboum Planetarium (West Palm Beach)

Georgia

Wetherbee Planetarium (Albany)

Jim Cherry Planetarium (Atlanta)

Tellus Planetarium (Cartersville)

Omnisphere Theater (Columbus)

Patterson Planetarium (Columbus)

George E. Coleman Planetarium (Dahlonega)

Sunrise Planetarium (Fairmount)

Mark Smith Planetarium (Macon)

Georgia Southern College Planetarium (Statesboro)

VSU Planetarium (Valdosta)

Rollins Planetarium (Young Harris)

Hawaii

Imiloa Astronomy Center (Hilo)

J. Watumull Planetarium (Honolulu)

Idaho

Whittenberger Planetarium (Caldwell)

Faulkner Planetarium (Twin Falls)

Illinois

WVHS Planetarium (Aurora)

Strickler Planetarium (Bourbonnais)

William M. Staerkel Planetarium (Champaign)

Adler Planetarium (Chicago)

Elgin SDU-46 Planetarium (Elgin)

Herbert Trackman Planetarium (Joliet)

Illinois State Univ Planetarium (Normal)

John Deere Planetarium (Rock Island)

Indiana

Carmel High School Planetarium (Carmel)

L. S. Knoblitt Planetarium (Columbus)

Koch Immersive Theater (Evansville)

Floyd Central Planetarium (Floyds Knobs)

Pike Planetarium (Indianapolis)

SpaceQuest Planetarium (Indianapolis)

Marion High School Planetarium (Marion)

Turkey Run State Park Planetarium (Marshall)

Merrillville Community Planetarium (Merrillville)

P-H-M Planetarium (Mishawaka)

Charles W. Brown Planetarium (Muncie)

Kennedy Planetarium (South Bend)

Allen Memorial Planetarium (Terre Haute)

Valparaiso University Planetarium (Valparaiso)

Iowa

Emil C. Miller Planetarium (Decorah)

Heitkamp Planetarium (Dubuque)

Kansas

Peterson Planetarium (Emporia)

Justice Planetarium (Hutchinson)

L. Russell Kelce Planetarium (Pittsburg)

Washburn Univ. Planetarium (Topeka)

Kentucky

Weatherford Planetarium (Berea)

Hardin Planetarium (Bowling Green)

Golden Pond Planetarium (Cadiz)

Rauch Planetarium (Louisville)

MSU Star Theater (Morehead)

EKSC Planetarium (Prestonburg)

Arnim D. Hummel Planetarium (Richmond)

Hummel Planetarium (Richmond)

Louisiana

Irene Pennington Planetarium (Baton Rouge)

Lafayette Museum Planetarium (Lafayette)

St. Charles Parish Library Planetarium (Luling)

Louisiana Tech Univ. Planetarium (Ruston)

Sawyer Space Dome Planetarium (Shreveport)

Maine

Northern Stars Planetarium (Fairfield)

Bates College Planetarium (Lewiston)

Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium (Orono)

Southworth Planetarium (Portland)

Maryland

Hickory Planetarium (Accident)

McKeldin Planetarium (Annapolis)

Davis Planetarium (Baltimore)

Banneker Planetarium (Catonsville)

Ausherman Planetarium (Frederick)

FSU Planetarium (Frostburg)

William Brish Planetarium (Hagerstown)

Owens Science Center Planetarium (Lanham)

Arthur Storer Planetarium (Prince Frederick)

Montgomery College Planetarium (Takoma Park)

Watson-King Planetarium (Towson)

Massachusetts

Bassett Planetarium (Amherst)

Charles Hayden Planetarium (Boston)

Brockton Planetarium (Brockton)

FSU Planetarium (Framingham)

W. Russell Blake Planetarium (Plymouth)

Seymour Planetarium (Springfield)

Alden Digital Planetarium (Worcester)

Michigan

Robinson Planetarium (Adrian)

Alma College Planetarium (Alma)

Jesse Besser Museum Planetarium (Alpena)

Argus IMRA Planetarium (Ann Arbor)

Univ of Michigan Planetarium (Ann Arbor)

Kingman Museum Planetarium (Battle Creek)

Delta College Planetarium (Bay City)

Legg Middle School Planetarium (Coldwater)

Henry Ford College Planetarium (Dearborn)

Dassault Systems Planetarium (Detroit)

Wayne State University Planetarium (Detroit)

Abrams Planetarium (East Lansing)

Longway Planetarium (Flint)

Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium (Grand Rapids)

Grosse Pointe Schools Planetarium (Grosse Pointe)

Peter F. Hurst Planetarium (Jackson)

Kalamazoo Valley Planetarium (Kalamazoo)

Ben Long Planetarium (Marie)

Shiras Planetarium (Marquette)

Carr-Fles Planetarium (Muskegon)

Vollbrecht Planetarium (Southfield)

Minnesota

Marshall Alworth Planetarium (Duluth)

Public School District 77 Planetarium (Mankato)

Southwest State Univ. Planetarium (Marshall)

MSUM Planetarium (Moorhead)

Mayo High School Planetarium (Rochester)

Como Planetarium (St Paul)

MacMillan Planetarium (St Paul)

St. Cloud State University Planetarium (St. Cloud)

Mississippi

Wiley Planetarium (Cleveland)

Russell C Davis Planetarium (Jackson)

Missouri

Earth and Space Science Center (Columbia)

Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium (Kansas City)

James McDonnell Planetarium (St Louis)

Bushman Planetarium (St. Joseph)

Montana

MSU Planetarium (Bozeman)

UM Planetarium (Missoula)

Nebraska

CSC Planetarium (Chadron)

Lueninghoener Planetarium (Fremont)

J. M. McDonald Planetarium (Hastings)

Kearney Planetarium (Kearney)

Ralph Mueller Planetarium (Lincoln)

Mallory Kountze Planetarium (Omaha)

Fred G. Dale Planetarium (Wayne)

Nevada

CSN Planetarium (North Las Vegas)

Fleischmann Planetarium (Reno)

New Hampshire

McAuliffe-Shepard Planetarium (Concord)

Putnam Planetarium (Keene)

Mark Sylvestre Planetarium (Plymouth)

New Jersey

RVCC Planetarium (Branchburg)

Fair Lawn Planetarium (Fair Lawn)

Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium (Jersey City)

Glenfield Planetarium (Montclair)

Dreyfuss Planetarium (Newark)

JSMS Planetarium (Old Bridge)

Longo Planetarium (Randolph)

Lenape Valley High School Planetarium (Stanhope)

Robert J. Novins Planetarium (Toms River)

The College of New Jersey Planetarium (Trenton)

New Mexico

Hefferan Planetarium (Albuquerque)

San Juan College Planetarium (Farmington)

Robert Goddard Planetarium (Roswell)

Kika Silva Pla Planetarium (Santa Fe)

New York

Southern Cayuga Planetarium (Aurora)

Roberson Planetarium (Binghamton)

Edwin P. Hubble Planetarium (Brooklyn)

Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium (Buffalo)

Vanderbilt Planetarium (Centerport)

Gustafson Planetarium (Fishkill)

Nassau Community College Planetarium (Garden City)

Longwood Regional Planetarium (Middle Island)

OHM Boces Planetarium (New Hartford)

John R. Kirk Planetarium (New Paltz)

City College of New York Planetarium (New York)

Hayden Planetarium (New York)

Northcountry Planetarium (Plattsburgh)

Potsdam Planetarium (Potsdam)

Strasenburgh Planetarium (Rochester)

miSci Planetarium (Schenectady)

Wagner College Planetarium (Staten Island)

Williamsville Space Lab Planetarium (Williamsville)

Andrus Planetarium (Yonkers)

North Carolina

Morehead Planetarium (Chapel Hill)

James H. Lynn Planetarium (Gastonia)

Neuseway Planetarium (Kinston)

Robeson Planetarium (Lumberton)

Cummins Planetarium (Rocky Mount)

Margaret C. Woodson Planetarium (Salisbury)

Ingram Planetarium (Sunset Beach)

Kaleideum Planetarium (Winston-Salem)

North Dakota

UND Planetarium (Grand Forks)

VCSU Planetarium (Valley City)

Ohio

Walter Schuele Planetarium (Bay Village)

BGSU Planetarium (Bowling Green)

Hoover-Price Planetarium (Canton)

Shafran Planetarium (Cleveland)

Arne Slettebak Planetarium (Columbus)

COSI Planetarium (Columbus)

Caryl D. Philips Space Theater (Dayton)

Kent State Univ. Planetarium (Kent)

Drake Planetarium (Norwood)

Appold Planetarium (Sylvania)

Ritter Planetarium (Toledo)

Fred Silk Planetarium (Wilmot)

Wilderness Center Planetarium (Wilmot)

Ward Beecher Planetarium (Youngstown)

Oklahoma

Kirkpatrick Planetarium (Oklahoma City)

James E. Bertelsmeyer Planetarium (Tuls)

Oregon

Eugene Science Center Planetarium (Eugene)

Planetarium Sky Theater (Gresham)

OMSI Kendall Planetarium (Portland)

Chemeketa Planetarium (Salem)

Pennsylvania

Neil Armstrong Planetarium (Altoona)

Yahn Planetarium (Erie)

Ted Pedas Planetarium (Farrell)

Boyertown Planetarium (Gilbertsville)

Indiana Univ. of PA Planetarium (Indiana)

Ulmer Planetarium (Lock Haven)

Strait Planetarium (Mansfield)

Allegheny College Planetarium (Meadville)

Westminster College Planetarium (New Wilmington)

Fels Planetarium (Philadelphia)

Buhl Planetarium (Pittsburgh)

Neag Planetarium (Reading)

Dibert-Roddick Planetarium (Shippensburg)

Sandra Pritchard Mather Planetarium (West Chester)

Detwiler Planetarium (Williamsport)

Rhode Island

Cormack Planetarium (Providence)

South Carolina

DuPont Planetarium (Aiken)

SCSM Planetarium (Columbia)

T. C. Hooper Planetarium (Greenville)

Stanback Planetarium (Orangeburg)

South Dakota

Journey Museum Planetarium (Rapid City)

Tennessee

Sumner Skies Planetarium (Gallatin)

M. D. Anderson Planetarium (Jackson)

East Tennessee State Univ. Planetarium (Johnson City)

Akima Planetarium (Knoxville)

Sudekum Planetarium (Nashville)

Texas

Abilene ISD Planetarium (Abilene)

Univ. of Texas-Arlington Planetarium (Arlington)

BASF Planetarium (Clute)

Commerce Planetarium (Commerce)

Cook Center Planetarium (Corsicana)

UTPA Heb Planetarium (Edinburg)

Gene Roddenberry Planetarium (El Paso)

Burke Baker Planetarium (Houston)

Sam Houston State Univ. Planetarium (Huntsville)

Mayborn Planetarium (Killeen)

Moody Planetarium (Lubbock)

Marian Blakemore Planetarium (Midland)

Stephen F. Austin Planetarium (Nacogdoches)

ASU Planetarium (San Angelo)

Scobee Planetarium (San Antonio)

Tarleton Science Planetarium (Stephenville)

CESSE Planetarium (Tyler)

Utah

Ott Planetarium (Ogden)

UVU Planetarium (Orem)

Royden G. Derrick Planetarium (Provo)

Clark Planetarium (Salt Lake City)

Vermont

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium (St. Johnsbury)

Virginia

David M. Brown Planetarium (Arlington)

Chesapeake Planetarium (Chesapeake)

John C. Wells Planetarium (Harrisonburg)

NSU Planetarium (Norfolk)

Beazley Planetarium (Portsmouth)

Radford University Planetarium (Radford)

Hopkins Planetarium (Roanoke)

Virginia Beach Public Schools Planetarium (Virginia Beach)

Washington

Willard Geer Planetarium (Bellevue)

Leslie E. Spanel Planetarium (Bellingham)

UW Planetarium (Seattle)

West Virginia

Berkeley County Planetarium (Hedgesville)

Wisconsin

L. E. Phillips Planetarium (Eau Claire)

Univ. of Wisconsin LaCrosse Planetarium (LaCrosse)

Barlow Planetarium (Menasha)

Manfred Olson Planetarium (Milwaukee)

Buckstaff Planetarium (Oshkosh)

Univ. of Wisconsin Planetarium (River Falls)

Allen F. Blocher Planetarium (Stevens Point)

Charles Z. Horwitz Planterium (Waukesha)

Gary E. Sampson Planetarium (Wauwatosa)

Wyoming

Casper Planetarium (Casper)

CCSD Planetarium (Gillette)

Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium (Laramie)

After you have your planetarium picked out, it's time to figure out food. Some planetariums offer a snack bar, or you and your date can get ice cream after the show. Maybe you want to treat your date to a romantic dinner after looking at the heavens. Whatever works for you.

I hope you enjoy this date! This is a unique date idea that is sure to amaze your partner. Just make sure they don't get motion sickness!

I hope you have a wonderful day and an even better date.