Inside Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum: a 9 m (30 ft) dome and 60 seats. Rows of seats are drawn from the seat count and the dome from its diameter.

Planetarium · Hòa L?c Hi-Tech Park, Hanoi, Vietnam

Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum

Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum is a planetarium in Hòa L?c Hi-Tech Park, Hanoi, Vietnam. It runs public shows. Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum has a 9 m (30 ft) dome and 60 seats.

Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum in brief

Public shows
Yes
Dome
9.0 m
Seats
60
Bortle class outside
Not yet rated

Official site and show times

Public shows at Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum: Yes

Observatory with planetarium, space museum with Solar System models and demos. 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.

Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum has a 9 m (30 ft) dome and 60 seats

That makes it a small dome, typical of schools, colleges and portable shows. The largest planetarium domes in the world are about 35 m across; a classroom dome is 5 to 8 m.

How dark the real sky is outside Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum

Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum 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.

Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum among the planetariums of Vietnam

Observatory open to the public Planetarium

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 Vietnam for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Hòa L?c Hi-Tech Park (approximate): 21.010°N, 105.530°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum

No dark sky place, public observatory, club or star party on the list is near Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum.

Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum record

Every value in the planetariums dataset for Vietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum
ID1833
NameVietnam National Space Center - Hòa L?c Observatory and Space Museum
CityStateHòa L?c Hi-Tech Park, Hanoi
CountryVietnam
Websitehttp://hhtp.gov.vn/vi/tin-tuc/trung-tam-vu-tru-v
Image2572.jpg
Dome9
Seats60
Lat21.01000
Lon105.53000
LatLonSpotHòa L?c Hi-Tech Park (approximate)
StatusOpen
StatusNoteVietnam Space Museum inaugurated Aug 2025
PublicNoteObservatory with planetarium, space museum with Solar System models and demos
Sourceshttps://english.vtv.vn/news/vietnam-space-museum-inaugurated-at-hoa-lac-hi-tech-park-in-hanoi-20250911152824269.htm; https://baodautu.vn/dai-thien-van-hoa-lac-tri-gia-60-ty-dong-sap-mo-cua-don-khach-d93852

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