Inside Beijing Planetarium - Hall A: a 23 m (75 ft) dome and 383 seats, projector Zeiss Universarium IX and Sky-Skan DigitalSky 2. Rows of seats are drawn from the seat count and the dome from its diameter.

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Beijing Planetarium - Hall A

Beijing Planetarium - Hall A is a planetarium in Beijing, China. It runs public shows. Beijing Planetarium - Hall A has a 23 m (75 ft) dome and 383 seats.

Beijing Planetarium - Hall A in brief

Public shows
Yes
Dome
23.0 m
Seats
383
Projector
Zeiss Universarium IX and Sky-Skan DigitalSky 2
Bortle class outside
Not yet rated

Official site and show times

Public shows at Beijing Planetarium - Hall A: Yes

Hall A dome with 8K x 8K projection; 3D and 4D theaters; children's shows on weekends. 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.

138 Xizhimenwai Street, Beijing, China 100044. Phone +86 10-6831-2570.

Beijing Planetarium - Hall A has a 23 m (75 ft) dome and 383 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 Universarium IX, together with a Sky-Skan DigitalSky 2 digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Beijing Planetarium - Hall A

Beijing Planetarium - Hall A 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.

Beijing Planetarium - Hall A among the planetariums of China

Huanglong National Scenic Area Zhangwu Xichong, Shenzhen Beijing Ancient Observatory FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) Gaocheng Astronomical Observatory Purple Mountain Observatory Sheshan Astronomical Observatory Taosi Ancient Observatory Xinglong Station (NAOC) Xujiahui Astronomical Observatory Chongqing Youth Science and Technology Center Guangzhou Spaceflight Spectacle (Hangtian Qiguan) Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Guangdong Science Center Yancheng Science Museum Mianyang Science and Technology Museum Children's Park Planetarium Qingdao Observatory Sheshan Astronomy Museum (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) Daqing Science & Technology Museum Fuxin Science & Technology Museum Bengbu Science Association Fengtai Science & Technology Museum Beijing Planetarium - Hall B (Digital Universe Theater) Shanghai Natural History Museum Shanghai Astronomy Museum China Science and Technology Museum Chenzhou Science Museum Dandong Science & Technology Museum Heaven and Earth Theatre - Dongcheng No. 1 Children's Palace Dongguan Science and Technology Museum Fujian Normal University Foshan Science Museum Fuzhou Science & Technology Museum Xingtai Guo Shoujing Memorial Hall Guangxi Science & Technology Museum Hebei Science and Technology Museum Hefei Science and Technology Museum Hunan Science and Technology Museum Ho Koon Nature Education cum Astronomical Centre Heilongjiang Science and Technology Museum Jilin Science & Technology Museum Ganzhou Science & Technology Museum Karamay Science & Technology Museum Hong Kong Space Museum - Stanley Ho Space Theatre Yanji Children's Palace China Maritime Museum Macao Science Center - Planetarium Nanjing Astronomical Instruments Co. (CAS) Ningbo Science Exploration Center Nanjing Science & Technology Museum Nantong Museum (Nantong Bowuyuan) Planetarium Ningxia Science & Technology Museum Beijing Huiwen Middle School Planetarium Purple Mountain Observatory (Zijinshan Observatory) Sichuan Science & Technology Museum Shandong Science and Technology Museum Wuzhifeng Astronomical Science Park Shaoxing Science & Technology Museum Shaanxi Museum of Natural History Tai'an Science and Technology Museum Beijing Polar Star Optical Instrument Co., Ltd. (Tianjixing) Tianjin Science and Technology Museum Tieling Science Museum Nanjing VasTech Astronomical Instrument & Equipment Co. Ltd. Wuhan Science and Technology Museum Wuxi Science and Technology Museum (Wuxi Museum) Wenzhou Science & Technology Museum Chengdu Yandaojie Middle School Planetarium Yulin Science and Technology Museum Zhejiang Science and Technology Museum Delingha Astronomy Science Museum Liaoyang Science & Technology Museum Inner Mongolia Science Museum Wuhan Science and Technology Museum Planetarium (Liberation Park) Yongcheng Science & Technology Museum Beijing Planetarium - Hall A Beijing, China Beijing Planetarium - Hall A Beijing, China
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The coordinates on this page point to Beijing Planetarium, Xizhimenwai (approximate): 39.937°N, 116.336°E.

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Beijing Planetarium - Hall A record

Every value in the planetariums dataset for Beijing Planetarium - Hall A
ID207
NameBeijing Planetarium - Hall A
Address138 Xizhimenwai Street
CityStateBeijing
Zip100044
CountryChina
Websitehttps://www.bjp.org.cn/
Phone+86 10-6831-2570
Image1677.jpg
Dome23
Seats383
OpticalZeiss Universarium IX
DigitalSky-Skan DigitalSky 2
Lat39.93700
Lon116.33600
LatLonSpotBeijing Planetarium, Xizhimenwai (approximate)
StatusOpen
PublicNoteHall A dome with 8K x 8K projection; 3D and 4D theaters; children's shows on weekends
Sourceshttps://english.beijing.gov.cn/beijinginfo/culture/culturaltreasures/cityofmuseums/list/202604/t20260427_4617304.html

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