Taipei Astronomical Museum

Public shows at Taipei Astronomical Museum: Yes

Cosmic Theater dome shows and live star shows daily; 3D theater, exhibits, 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.

363 Jihe Road, Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan. Phone +886 2-2831-4551.

Taipei Astronomical Museum has a 25 m (82 ft) dome and 304 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 Zeiss Model VI TD, together with a Global Immersion Uniview digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Taipei Astronomical Museum

Taipei Astronomical 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.

Taipei Astronomical Museum among the planetariums of Taiwan

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 Taiwan for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Taipei Astronomical Museum, Shilin (approximate): 25.096°N, 121.518°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Taipei Astronomical Museum

Nearest dark sky places

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Astronomical Society of the Republic of China (ASROC)Taipei, Taiwan, 6 km (3 mi)

Other planetariums within 150 km

• National Museum of Natural ScienceTaichung, Taiwan, 135 km (84 mi), 23.0 m dome

Taipei Astronomical Museum record

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