Shaoxing Science & Technology Museum

Public shows at Shaoxing Science & Technology Museum: Yes

Free science museum with dome theater; online booking. 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.

611 Middle Road, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China 312000. Phone +86 575-8864-2090.

Shaoxing Science & Technology Museum has a 15 m (49 ft) dome and 110 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 5, 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 Shaoxing Science & Technology Museum

Shaoxing Science & Technology 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.

Shaoxing Science & Technology 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 Shaoxing (approximate): 30.000°N, 120.580°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Shaoxing Science & Technology Museum

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Sheshan Astronomical ObservatorySongjiang, Shanghai, China, 135 km (84 mi). Museum of astronomy history in the historic dome; reopened 2023

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Zhejiang Science and Technology MuseumHangzhou, Zhejiang, China, 51 km (31 mi), 27.0 m dome
• Ningbo Science Exploration CenterNingbo, Zhejiang, China, 94 km (59 mi), 26.0 m dome
• Sheshan Astronomy Museum (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)Shanghai, China, 135 km (84 mi), 6.0 m dome

Shaoxing Science & Technology Museum record

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