Inside Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory): a 15 m (49 ft) dome and 120 seats, projector Sky-Skan Definiti. Rows of seats are drawn from the seat count and the dome from its diameter.

Planetarium · Yangju, South Korea

Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory)

Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory) is a planetarium in Yangju, South Korea. It runs public shows. Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory) has a 15 m (49 ft) dome and 120 seats.

Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory) in brief

Public shows
Yes
Dome
15.0 m
Seats
120
Projector
Sky-Skan Definiti
Bortle class outside
Not yet rated

Official site and show times

Public shows at Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory): Yes

Planetarium, public observing, overnight stays; cable car to the observatory. 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.

410-5 Seokhyeon-ri, Jangheung-myeon, Yangju, South Korea. Phone +82 31-894-6000.

Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory) has a 15 m (49 ft) dome and 120 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.

Its projection system is the Sky-Skan Definiti, a digital fulldome system that can fly the audience through the solar system as well as show the night sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory)

Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory) has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

1 mag 8.0 21.99+ 2 mag 7.5 21.89+ 3 mag 7.0 21.69+ 4 mag 6.5 20.49+ 5 mag 6.0 19.50+ 6 mag 5.5 18.94+ 7 mag 5.0 18.38+ 8 mag 4.5 18.00+ 9 mag 4.0
The Bortle scale. Each panel shows the class number, the faintest star the naked eye reaches at the zenith, and the darkest-edge sky brightness reading of that class in mag/arcsec².

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.

Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory) among the planetariums of South Korea

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The coordinates on this page point to town center of Yangju (approximate): 37.785°N, 127.046°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory)

Nearest dark sky places

PlaceWhereBortleDistance
Yeongyang Firefly Eco ParkYeongyang, South Korea3219 km (136 mi)

Other planetariums within 150 km

Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory) record

Every value in the planetariums dataset for Songam Space Center (Songam Observatory)
ID1599
NameSongam Space Center (Songam Observatory)
Address410-5 Seokhyeon-ri, Jangheung-myeon
CityStateYangju
CountrySouth Korea
Websitehttp://www.starsvalley.com/
Phone+82 31-894-6000
Image2480.jpg
Dome15
Seats120
DigitalSky-Skan Definiti
Lat37.78530
Lon127.04580
LatLonSpottown center of Yangju (approximate)
StatusOpen
PublicNotePlanetarium, public observing, overnight stays; cable car to the observatory
Sourceshttps://astro.kasi.re.kr/learning/pageView/5761

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