Gunma Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Youth Science Museum

Public shows at Gunma Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Youth Science Museum: Yes

Youth science museum with 18 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.

2-20-22 Bunkyo-cho, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan 371-0801. Phone +81 27-224-5700.

Gunma Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Youth Science Museum has a 18 m (59 ft) dome and 200 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.

It runs an optical star projector, the Goto GN-AT, together with a Evans & Sutherland Digistar 4 digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Gunma Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Youth Science Museum

Gunma Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Youth Science Museum 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.

Gunma Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Youth Science Museum 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 Bunkyo-cho, Maebashi (approximate): 36.375°N, 139.075°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Gunma Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Youth Science Museum

Nearest dark sky places

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 56 km (35 mi). Public night viewing with 60cm reflector on open days; beginner astrophotography classes
• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 61 km (38 mi). Public viewing through large telescope, 10 am-10 pm
• National Astronomical Observatory of JapanMitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 88 km (55 mi). Mitaka campus open daily for a free self-guided historic-telescope tour; regular stargazing evenings by lottery
• National Astronomical Observatory of JapanMitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 89 km (55 mi). Mitaka campus open daily 10 am-5 pm, free; solar observation weekends; regular stargazing open course
• Gekko ObservatoryKannami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 139 km (87 mi). Open 9:30 am-5 pm, closed Mondays and 4th Tuesday; adults 1200 yen incl. planetarium
• Kiso ObservatoryKiso, Nagano, Japan, 145 km (90 mi). Exhibits and dome viewing room open daily; annual open day in August with evening observing

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Astronomical Society of JapanMitaka, Japan, 88 km (55 mi)

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Takasaki Youth Science CenterTakasaki, Gunma, Japan, 7 km (4 mi), 21.0 m dome
• Saku City Children's Future Center (Kodomo Miraikan)Saku, Nagano, Japan, 56 km (35 mi), 16.0 m dome
• Tochigi Prefectural Children's Science MuseumUtsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan, 70 km (43 mi), 20.0 m dome
• Saitama City Space TheaterSaitama, Saitama, Japan, 71 km (44 mi), 23.0 m dome
• Minamimaki Village Rural Culture Information Center (Hashibami)Minamimaki, Nagano, Japan, 72 km (45 mi), 16.0 m dome

Gunma Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center Youth Science Museum record

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