Daejeon Citizen Observatory

Public shows at Daejeon Citizen Observatory: Yes

Free public observatory with planetarium shows and nightly observing. 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.

213-48 Gwahak-ro, Sinseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea. Phone +82 42-863-8763.

Daejeon Citizen Observatory has a 20 m (66 ft) dome and 85 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 Ohira Megastar Neo, together with a Metaspace ScreenBerry digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Daejeon Citizen Observatory

Daejeon Citizen Observatory 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.

Daejeon Citizen Observatory among the planetariums of South Korea

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 South Korea for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to town center of Daejeon (approximate): 36.321°N, 127.420°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Daejeon Citizen Observatory

Nearest dark sky places

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Sobaeksan Optical Astronomy ObservatoryDanyang, North Chungcheong, South Korea, 115 km (71 mi). Open to the public during Space Week; otherwise research site
• Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy ObservatoryYeongcheon, North Gyeongsang, South Korea, 141 km (87 mi). Open to the public during annual Space Week events; nearby Bohyunsan Observatory science museum

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Korean Astronomical SocietyDaejeon, South Korea, 0 km (0 mi)

Other planetariums within 150 km

• National Science Museum (Daejeon)Daejeon, South Korea, 7 km (4 mi), 23.0 m dome
• Cheongju Land - Galileo PlanetariumCheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, 35 km (22 mi), 7.0 m dome
• Chungcheongbuk-do Natural Science Education InstituteCheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, 36 km (22 mi), 16.0 m dome
• Jwagusan ObservatoryJeungpyeong, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, 54 km (33 mi), 8.0 m dome
• Starpark - Chilgapsan ObservatoryCheongyang-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea, 57 km (35 mi), 10.0 m dome

Daejeon Citizen Observatory record

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