🔭 Yatsugatake South Base Observatory

Japan · Asia · 35.88°N, 138.36°E

Quick facts

Country	Japan
Continent / region	Asia
Coordinates (approx.)	35.88°N, 138.36°E · view on map
Distance to the equator	3,994 km north of it
Solar time	UTC+9:15 — read from longitude, so it is the sky's clock rather than the government's
Sun today (UTC)	Rises 21:10, sets 07:50 — 10 h 40 min of daylight

Yatsugatake South Base Observatory is located in Japan, in Asia.

Closest observatories

Nobeyama radio observatory — 12 km away
Kiso Observatory — 67 km away
Chichibu Observatory — 71 km away
Gekko Observatory — 101 km away
Nihondaira Observatory — 102 km away

Straight-line distances on a sphere, computed from the coordinates. A road would be longer.

More observatories in Japan

Bisei Spaceguard Center · Chichibu Observatory · Gekko Observatory · JCPM Yakiimo Station · Kiso Observatory · Kitami Observatory · Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory · Kwasan Observatory · Nachi-Katsuura Observatory · National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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