Sapporo Science Center (Sapporo Youth Science Museum)

Public shows at Sapporo Science Center (Sapporo Youth Science Museum): Yes

Science exhibits and 18 m dome planetarium 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.

1-5-2-20 Atsubetsu-chuo, Atsubetsu-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan 004-0051. Phone +81 118-92-5001.

Sapporo Science Center (Sapporo 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 Chiron III, together with a Sky-Skan Skymax DS digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Sapporo Science Center (Sapporo Youth Science Museum)

Sapporo Science Center (Sapporo 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.

Sapporo Science Center (Sapporo 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 Sapporo Science Center, Atsubetsu (map embed): 43.036°N, 141.469°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Sapporo Science Center (Sapporo Youth Science Museum)

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Moiwayama Observatory Dome TheaterSapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 12 km (8 mi), 6.0 m dome
• Sapporo Starlight DomeSapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 21 km (13 mi), 15.0 m dome
• Yoichi Space Memorial Hall - Space DomeYoichi, Hokkaido, Japan, 60 km (37 mi), 5.0 m dome
• Asahikawa City Science Museum SaipalAsahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, 108 km (67 mi), 18.0 m dome

No dark sky place, public observatory, club or star party on the list is near Sapporo Science Center (Sapporo Youth Science Museum).

Sapporo Science Center (Sapporo Youth Science Museum) record

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