Brooklyn Park, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Brooklyn Park reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Brooklyn Park's sky is brighter than 42.2% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Brooklyn Park is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Maple Grove, MN, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Brooklyn Park compares nationally

About 82,893 people live in Brooklyn Park, MN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Brooklyn Park places 1,347 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.