Yoshida Science Museum (Kurobe)

Public shows at Yoshida Science Museum (Kurobe): Yes

Science museum with 20 m planetarium; weekend and holiday shows. 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.

574-1 Yoshida, Kurobe, Toyama, Japan 938-0005. Phone +81 765-57-0610.

Yoshida Science Museum (Kurobe) has a 20 m (66 ft) dome and 233 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.

It runs an optical star projector, the Konica-Minolta MS-20AT, together with a Konica-Minolta Mediaglobe digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Yoshida Science Museum (Kurobe)

Yoshida Science Museum (Kurobe) 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.

Yoshida Science Museum (Kurobe) 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 Yoshida, Kurobe (approximate): 36.875°N, 137.440°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Yoshida Science Museum (Kurobe)

Nearest dark sky places

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Hida Observatory, Kyoto UniversityTakayama, Gifu, Japan, 70 km (44 mi). Annual summer open day and booked group visits; no regular public nights
• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 116 km (72 mi). Public viewing through large telescope, 10 am-10 pm
• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 119 km (74 mi). Public night viewing with 60cm reflector on open days; beginner astrophotography classes
• Kiso ObservatoryKiso, Nagano, Japan, 121 km (75 mi). Exhibits and dome viewing room open daily; annual open day in August with evening observing

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Toyama Science MuseumToyama, Toyama, Japan, 32 km (20 mi), 18.0 m dome
• Yanagida Star Observation Center (Mantenboshi)Noto, Ishikawa, Japan, 55 km (34 mi), 12.0 m dome
• Ogawa Astronomical Observatory - Hoshi to Midori no Roman-kanOgawa, Nagano, Japan, 56 km (35 mi), 8.0 m dome
• Joetsu Kiyosato Star Hometown Museum (Hoshi no Furusato-kan)Joetsu, Niigata, Japan, 77 km (48 mi), 8.0 m dome
• Kanazawa Kigoyama Astronomical Observation CenterKanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, 78 km (49 mi), 10.0 m dome

Yoshida Science Museum (Kurobe) record

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