What the night sky looks like over Anoka, MN

Satellite radiance puts Anoka in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 30.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Anoka.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Anoka

4 miles from Anoka, straight-line, sits Andover, MN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Anoka's own suburban edge band.

Andover, MN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Anoka against the rest of the dataset

About 18,068 people live in Anoka, MN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Anoka ranks 976 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.