Discovery Museum and Planetarium
Discovery Museum and Planetarium is a museum in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 70 m. Eden Hill stands 240 m to the north-northwest, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Ninety Acres Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 1.1 miles off.
The story
The Discovery Science Center and Planetarium is a children's science museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that serves as both a tourist destination and an educational resource for area schools. The Discovery Science Center provides educational programs, planetarium presentations, the Challenger Learning Center, Science on a Sphere and a variety of permanent and traveling exhibits, to increase science awareness among the area's children.
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Dates from 1958.
Wikidata Q5281942, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 70 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 1.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 29.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ninety Acres Park: 0.2 mi
- Puglio Park: 0.4 mi
- Owen Fish Park: 1.1 mi
- Lake Mohegan Recreation Area: 1.2 mi
- Dover Park: 1.3 mi
- Tree Stump Monument: 1.2 mi
- Goosetown Park: 2.4 mi
- Clinton Park Militia Grounds Bicentenial Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Pro Patria: 2.9 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 3.0 mi
- Horse Tavern Brook Open Space: 1.2 mi
- Congress Street (Morehouse Highway): 1.5 mi
- Woodside Circle Open Space: 1.7 mi
- Morehouse Highway: 1.7 mi
- Aldo Park: 1.8 mi
- Lake Mohegan Beach: 1.4 mi
- Seaside Beach: 4.2 mi
- Money Beach: 4.9 mi
- Jennings Beach: 5.1 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 5.1 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 1.6 mi
- Hoyden Hill: 2.5 mi
- Sport Hill: 2.6 mi
- Meetinghouse Hill: 2.6 mi
- Tunxis Hill: 2.7 mi
- Drew Park Community Gardens: 2.0 mi
- Urban Roots Bridgeport: 3.3 mi
- Fairfield Museum Pollinator Garden: 5.2 mi
- Rose/Wedding garden: 6.5 mi
- Westport Community Garden: 6.6 mi
- Housatonic Museum of Art: 3.5 mi
- Barnum Museum: 3.6 mi
- Trumbull Historical Society: 4.3 mi
- Connecticut Audubon Birdcraft Museum: 5.0 mi
- Fairfield Museum And History Center: 5.2 mi
- Devil's Glen Falls: 6.2 mi
- Cascade: 6.4 mi
- Cascades: 7.3 mi
- Farmill River Falls: 7.5 mi
- Cascade: 7.7 mi
- Heron: 3.2 mi
- Mother Mary: 4.8 mi
- Miniature Windmill: 6.5 mi
- Miniature Lighthouse: 6.5 mi
- Tonka Truck Tree: 8.2 mi
- Dynamite Storage Tunnel: 5.0 mi
- Burr Homestead: 5.2 mi
- 3-town marker: 8.2 mi
- Earthplace: 9.0 mi
- Weir House: 12.0 mi
- Old Raven Rocks: 17.6 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 17.7 mi
- Forbes Bluff: 17.7 mi
- Indian Rock Shelter: 18.0 mi
- Castle Rock: 18.3 mi
- Picnic Grove: 2.7 mi
- Cedar Grove: 6.5 mi
- Oak Grove: 6.9 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 6.9 mi
- Pond View: 7.0 mi
- Tongue Point Light: 4.4 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 8.0 mi
- Stratford Point Light: 8.0 mi
- Fog Signal House: 8.0 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 11.9 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 10.6 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 10.6 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 14.4 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 14.4 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 19.1 mi
- Pleasure Beach: 5.0 mi
- Cuties Island: 19.0 mi
- The Silver Spring: 14.3 mi
- Cold Spring: 18.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of Discovery Museum and Planetarium. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eden Hill | NNW 333° | 240 m | 9.2 mi |
| Redding Ridge | NW 318° | 214 m | 9.4 mi |
| Goodsell Hill | WNW 290° | 211 m | 10.1 mi |
| Huckleberry Hill | WNW 295° | 204 m | 9.8 mi |
| Meekers Hill | NW 319° | 203 m | 8.7 mi |
| Barn Hill | NNE 16° | 200 m | 9.3 mi |
| Moose Hill | N 10° | 198 m | 8.2 mi |
| Israel Hill | NNE 19° | 192 m | 8.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:16 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:43 | 16:28 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Igor I Sikorsky MEM AP, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/367140295
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