Yancheng Science Museum

Public shows at Yancheng Science Museum: Check the schedule

Public hours for Yancheng Science Museum are not confirmed in the list. Many planetariums at schools and universities run public shows only on set nights; the official site has the schedule.

61 Kaifang Boulevard, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China 224002. Phone +86 515-8833-3387.

Yancheng Science Museum has a 12 m (39 ft) dome and 65 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 4, 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 Yancheng Science Museum

Yancheng 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.

Yancheng Science Museum among the planetariums of China

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 China for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to town center of Yancheng, 224002 (approximate): 33.358°N, 120.157°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Yancheng Science Museum

No dark sky place, public observatory, club or star party on the list is near Yancheng Science Museum.

Yancheng Science Museum record

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