Brook Park, OH Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Brook Park, OH
Brook Park's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Brook Park's sky is brighter than 75.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
How far Brook Park is from a meaningfully darker sky
6 miles from Brook Park, straight-line, sits Westlake, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Brook Park's own suburban band.
Westlake, OH is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Brook Park against the rest of the dataset
Brook Park, OH has a population of about 18,142, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Brook Park ranks 2,409 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.