Welcome to the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium

Lyman Spitzer Jr. Planetarium

Immerse Yourself

The only public planetarium in Vermont invites you to take a tour of the cosmos, get transported by extreme weather, or travel through time to the age of the dinosaurs. Choose from a selection of films and in-person presentations during your visit. Or reserve the planetarium for a private show!

Today’s Programs

  • Live Astronomy Presenter - "Tonight's Sky"
    December 1311:30 am - 12:00 pm
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  • Butterfly Full-Dome Movie
    December 1312:30 pm - 1:00 pm
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  • Butterfly Full-Dome Movie
    December 1312:30 pm - 1:00 pm
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  • Astronomy Full-Dome Movie - "Beyond the Sun"
    December 131:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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  • Live Astronomy Presenter - "Journey to Mars"
    December 132:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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  • Astronomy Full-Dome Movie - "One Sky"
    December 133:30 pm - 4:15 pm
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Membership

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Weather Forecast

Variable clouds. Cooler with lows from the single digits to teens.

Current Weather Information for December 13, 2025

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Tonight

Variable clouds.
Single digits to teens.

Mix of sun and clouds.

Saturday

Chance of afternoon snow showers, mainly west.
Mainly mid 20s to around 30

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Sunday

Chance of snow showers.
Upper teens to mid 20s

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Monday

Mostly cloudy.
Mid to upper teens southern valleys and Champlain Valley, low to mid teens elsewhere north

Eye on the Night Sky

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Today:
The Geminid Meteor shower reaches its peak tonight. This is the year’s most prolific displays of meteors, producing over 100 shooting stars per hour. The Twins of Gemini are one third of the way up by 9 o’clock, which means the meteors are active all night long. And there will be little interference from the Moon, which is now past its last quarter.