Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory

Can you visit Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory? Yes

Open to the public during annual Space Week events; nearby Bohyunsan Observatory science museum.

A public night at an observatory usually starts at dusk with a short talk, then a line at the eyepiece of the main telescope for the Moon, a planet or a bright cluster, with volunteers' smaller telescopes set up outside. Dress for the night air even in summer: domes are not heated, so the telescope stays at outside temperature. Many nights sell out or cancel for clouds, so check the observatory's site on the day.

What Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory observes

The list does not describe the instruments at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory yet; the official site has them.

How dark the sky is at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory

Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory 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. Research telescopes are often sited on mountains above the haze, so the real sky can be darker than the map suggests.

Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory among the observatories of South Korea

Green dots are observatories open to the public, blue dots research or private sites, squares dark sky places; select one for its page. See Observatories in South Korea for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to BOAO 1.8 m telescope axis, GPS survey (JASS 1995): 36.165°N, 128.977°E.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Open the larger map · Directions. Mountain observatory roads are often gated after dark; go only on a scheduled public night.

Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory

Nearest dark sky places

Other observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Sobaeksan Optical Astronomy ObservatoryDanyang, North Chungcheong, South Korea, 97 km (60 mi). Open to the public during Space Week; otherwise research site

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Korean Astronomical SocietyDaejeon, South Korea, 141 km (87 mi)

Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory record

From the site's observatories dataset (observatoriesglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.