Hokumouken Kitami Culture Center (Museum of Science, History and Art)

Public shows at Hokumouken Kitami Culture Center (Museum of Science, History and Art): Yes

Planetarium shows weekends and holidays; science, history and art museum. 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.

1 Kohen-cho, Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan 090-0015. Phone +81 157-23-6700.

Hokumouken Kitami Culture Center (Museum of Science, History and Art) has a 15 m (49 ft) dome and 160 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 star projector is the Goto GM II-AT, an optical instrument that shines pinpoint stars through a ball of lenses, the classic planetarium sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Hokumouken Kitami Culture Center (Museum of Science, History and Art)

Hokumouken Kitami Culture Center (Museum of Science, History and Art) 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.

Hokumouken Kitami Culture Center (Museum of Science, History and Art) 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 town center of Kitami (approximate): 43.803°N, 143.891°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Hokumouken Kitami Culture Center (Museum of Science, History and Art)

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Kitami ObservatoryKitami, Hokkaido, Japan, 2 km (1 mi). Part of the city museum and planetarium complex; check museum for observing events

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Ginga no Mori Astronomical Observatory (Rikubetsu)Rikubetsu, Hokkaido, Japan, 40 km (25 mi), 4.0 m dome
• Asahikawa City Science Museum SaipalAsahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, 122 km (76 mi), 18.0 m dome
• Nayoro City Observatory KitasubaruNayoro, Hokkaido, Japan, 130 km (81 mi), 8.0 m dome

Hokumouken Kitami Culture Center (Museum of Science, History and Art) record

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