Akita Furusato-mura - Hoshizora Tankenkan Spacia

Public shows at Akita Furusato-mura - Hoshizora Tankenkan Spacia: Yes

Theme village with large 23 m planetarium (Spacia); shows daily. 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.

62-46 Aza Tomigosawa, Akasaka, Yokote, Akita, Japan 013-0064. Phone +81 0182-33-8800.

Akita Furusato-mura - Hoshizora Tankenkan Spacia has a 23 m (75 ft) dome and 277 seats

That makes it one of the large domes, built for big public 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 Infinium Alpha, an optical instrument that shines pinpoint stars through a ball of lenses, the classic planetarium sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Akita Furusato-mura - Hoshizora Tankenkan Spacia

Akita Furusato-mura - Hoshizora Tankenkan Spacia 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.

Akita Furusato-mura - Hoshizora Tankenkan Spacia 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 Akita Furusato-mura, Yokote (approximate): 39.300°N, 140.540°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Akita Furusato-mura - Hoshizora Tankenkan Spacia

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Sendai Astronomical ObservatorySendai, Miyagi, Japan, 119 km (74 mi). Exhibits and planetarium daily except some weekdays; public night viewing with the 1.3m telescope on set evenings

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Star House Cosmo WorldYurihonjo, Akita, Japan, 41 km (26 mi), 6.0 m dome
• Akita Prefectural Children's Hall MiraiaAkita, Japan, 58 km (36 mi), 8.0 m dome
• Akita Prefectural General Education CenterAkita, Japan, 60 km (37 mi), 8.0 m dome
• Morioka Children's Science MuseumMorioka, Iwate, Japan, 67 km (41 mi), 18.0 m dome
• Palette Osaki (Osaki Lifelong Learning Center) PlanetariumOsaki, Miyagi, Japan, 89 km (55 mi), 18.0 m dome

Akita Furusato-mura - Hoshizora Tankenkan Spacia record

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