Nagasaki Science Museum (Starship)

Public shows at Nagasaki Science Museum (Starship): Yes

Science museum with 23 m planetarium; daily 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.

7-2 Aburaki-cho, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan 852-8035. Phone +81 958-42-0505.

Nagasaki Science Museum (Starship) has a 23 m (75 ft) dome and 216 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 Goto Chiron II Hybrid, together with a Goto Virtuarium II digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Nagasaki Science Museum (Starship)

Nagasaki Science Museum (Starship) 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.

Nagasaki Science Museum (Starship) 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 Aburagi-cho, Nagasaki (approximate): 32.790°N, 129.860°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Nagasaki Science Museum (Starship)

Nearest dark sky places

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Saga Prefectural Space and Science Museum (Yumeginga)Takeo, Saga, Japan, 47 km (29 mi), 18.0 m dome
• Ryugatake MYU-I Astronomical ObservatoryKamiamakusa, Kumamoto, Japan, 66 km (41 mi), 5.0 m dome
• Karatsu Science Museum for YouthKaratsu, Saga, Japan, 73 km (46 mi), 6.0 m dome
• Kumamoto City MuseumKumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan, 78 km (49 mi), 16.0 m dome
• Fukuoka Prefectural Youth Science MuseumKurume, Fukuoka, Japan, 85 km (53 mi), 23.0 m dome

Nagasaki Science Museum (Starship) record

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