Yamagata Prefectural Asahi Youth Nature House

Public shows at Yamagata Prefectural Asahi Youth Nature House: Yes

Prefectural youth nature center with planetarium for group stays and programs. 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.

2523-5 Aza tateyama, Asahi, Yamagata, Japan 990-1101. Phone +81 237-62-4125.

Yamagata Prefectural Asahi Youth Nature House has a 9 m (30 ft) dome and 80 seats

That makes it a small dome, typical of schools, colleges and portable shows. The largest planetarium domes in the world are about 35 m across; a classroom dome is 5 to 8 m.

Its star projector is the Konica-Minolta MS-8, an optical instrument that shines pinpoint stars through a ball of lenses, the classic planetarium sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Yamagata Prefectural Asahi Youth Nature House

Yamagata Prefectural Asahi Youth Nature House 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.

Yamagata Prefectural Asahi Youth Nature House among the planetariums of Japan

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 Japan for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Asahi town, Yamagata (approximate): 38.257°N, 140.147°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Yamagata Prefectural Asahi Youth Nature House

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Sendai Astronomical ObservatorySendai, Miyagi, Japan, 63 km (39 mi). Exhibits and planetarium daily except some weekdays; public night viewing with the 1.3m telescope on set evenings

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Sendai Astronomical ObservatorySendai, Miyagi, Japan, 53 km (33 mi), 25.0 m dome
• Palette Osaki (Osaki Lifelong Learning Center) PlanetariumOsaki, Miyagi, Japan, 78 km (48 mi), 18.0 m dome
• Koriyama City Fureai Science Center - Space ParkKoriyama, Fukushima, Japan, 98 km (61 mi), 23.0 m dome
• Niigata Prefectural Natural Science MuseumNiigata, Niigata, Japan, 104 km (65 mi), 18.0 m dome
• Star House Cosmo WorldYurihonjo, Akita, Japan, 109 km (68 mi), 6.0 m dome

Yamagata Prefectural Asahi Youth Nature House record

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