Inside Guangdong Science Center: a 18 m (59 ft) dome and 190 seats, projector Evans & Sutherland Digistar 3 Laser. Rows of seats are drawn from the seat count and the dome from its diameter.

Planetarium · Guangzhou, China

Guangdong Science Center

Guangdong Science Center is a planetarium in Guangzhou, China. It runs public shows. Guangdong Science Center has a 18 m (59 ft) dome and 190 seats.

Guangdong Science Center in brief

Public shows
Yes
Dome
18.0 m
Seats
190
Projector
Evans & Sutherland Digistar 3 Laser
Bortle class outside
Not yet rated

Official site and show times

Public shows at Guangdong Science Center: Yes

Large science center with fulldome, IMAX and 4D theaters. 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.

6 West Road, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou, China 510006. Phone +86 20-3934-8015.

Guangdong Science Center has a 18 m (59 ft) dome and 190 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 Evans & Sutherland Digistar 3 Laser, 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 Guangdong Science Center

Guangdong Science Center 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.

Guangdong Science Center among the planetariums of China

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The coordinates on this page point to Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Panyu (approximate): 23.042°N, 113.368°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Guangdong Science Center

Nearest dark sky places

PlaceWhereBortleDistance
Xichong, ShenzhenShenzhen, China4137 km (85 mi)

Other planetariums within 150 km

Guangdong Science Center record

Every value in the planetariums dataset for Guangdong Science Center
ID170
NameGuangdong Science Center
Address6 West Road, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center
CityStateGuangzhou
Zip510006
CountryChina
Websitehttps://www.gdsc.cn/
Phone+86 20-3934-8015
Image1732.jpg
Dome18
Seats190
DigitalEvans & Sutherland Digistar 3 Laser
Lat23.04200
Lon113.36800
LatLonSpotGuangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Panyu (approximate)
StatusOpen
PublicNoteLarge science center with fulldome, IMAX and 4D theaters
Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong_Science_Center

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