Gwangju Creative Convergence Education Institute (formerly Gwangju Education and Science Research Institute)

Public shows at Gwangju Creative Convergence Education Institute (formerly Gwangju Education and Science Research Institute): Yes

Education-office science institute with large planetarium; student and family programs. Check the official site for the current schedule and tickets before you go.

Renamed: Now Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education Creative Convergence Education Institute.

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.

619 Ullim-dong, Dong-gu, Gwangju, South Korea. Phone +82 62-220-9766.

Gwangju Creative Convergence Education Institute (formerly Gwangju Education and Science Research Institute) has a 18 m (59 ft) dome and 174 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 RSA Cosmos SN 1000 Hybrid, together with a RSA Cosmos InSpaceSystem 6C digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Gwangju Creative Convergence Education Institute (formerly Gwangju Education and Science Research Institute)

Gwangju Creative Convergence Education Institute (formerly Gwangju Education and Science Research Institute) 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.

Gwangju Creative Convergence Education Institute (formerly Gwangju Education and Science Research Institute) 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 Gwangju (approximate): 35.146°N, 126.923°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Gwangju Creative Convergence Education Institute (formerly Gwangju Education and Science Research Institute)

Nearest dark sky places

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Korean Astronomical SocietyDaejeon, South Korea, 138 km (86 mi)

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Space 360Gwangju, South Korea, 12 km (7 mi), 12.0 m dome
• Gwangju National Science MuseumGwangju, South Korea, 12 km (7 mi), 12.0 m dome
• Jeonnam Creative Convergence Education Institute (formerly Jeollanamdo Institute of Science Education)Naju, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, 24 km (15 mi), 10.0 m dome
• Gokseong Seomjin River ObservatoryGokseong, South Korea, 37 km (23 mi), 8.0 m dome
• Boseong Astronomical Science MuseumBoseong, Jeollanam-do, South Korea, 44 km (27 mi), 10.0 m dome

Gwangju Creative Convergence Education Institute (formerly Gwangju Education and Science Research Institute) record

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