Wuzhifeng Astronomical Science Park

Public shows at Wuzhifeng Astronomical Science Park: Yes

Hilltop observatory and planetarium park; summer astronomy activities. 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.

Wuzhifeng (Fingers Peak), Yinna Mountain, Meixian District, Meizhou, Guangdong, China.

Wuzhifeng Astronomical Science Park has a 12 m (39 ft) dome and 90 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 star projector is the Jindu, an optical instrument that shines pinpoint stars through a ball of lenses, the classic planetarium sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Wuzhifeng Astronomical Science Park

Wuzhifeng Astronomical Science Park 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.

Wuzhifeng Astronomical Science Park 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 Meizhou (approximate): 24.298°N, 116.107°E.

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Wuzhifeng Astronomical Science Park record

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