Central, LA Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 861 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.