Central, LA's night sky, measured from orbit

Central 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. That's brighter than 26.9% of the 3,206 US 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Central

74 miles from Central, straight-line, sits New Orleans, LA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Central's own suburban edge band.

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

How Central compares nationally

Central, LA counts roughly 30,161 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Central places 861 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.