Fukuoka City Science Museum

Public shows at Fukuoka City Science Museum: Yes

25 m dome theater with planetarium and fulldome shows; science exhibits. 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.

4-2-1 Ropponmatsu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan 810-0044. Phone +81 92-731-2525.

Fukuoka City Science Museum has a 25 m (82 ft) dome and 220 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 Geministar, together with a Konica Minolta Media Globe 8K digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Fukuoka City Science Museum

Fukuoka City 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.

Fukuoka City 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 Fukuoka City Science Museum, Ropponmatsu (map embed): 33.576°N, 130.376°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Fukuoka City Science Museum

Nearest dark sky places

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Fukuoka Prefectural Youth Science MuseumKurume, Fukuoka, Japan, 32 km (20 mi), 23.0 m dome
• Karatsu Science Museum for YouthKaratsu, Saga, Japan, 40 km (25 mi), 6.0 m dome
• Space LABO (Kitakyushu City Science Museum)Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan, 52 km (32 mi), 20.0 m dome
• Saga Prefectural Space and Science Museum (Yumeginga)Takeo, Saga, Japan, 54 km (33 mi), 18.0 m dome
• Kumamoto City MuseumKumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan, 91 km (56 mi), 16.0 m dome

Fukuoka City Science Museum record

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