Brookhaven, GA Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Brookhaven, GA?
Brookhaven's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 87% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Brookhaven.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Brookhaven
Sandy Springs, GA, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Brookhaven. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Sandy Springs, GA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Brookhaven against the rest of the dataset
Brookhaven, GA has a population of about 59,370, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Brookhaven comes in at 2,775, darkest to brightest.