Collingswood, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Collingswood in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 59.3% 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.

How far Collingswood is from a meaningfully darker sky

Pine Hill, NJ, about 10 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Collingswood. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Collingswood compares nationally

Collingswood, NJ has a population of about 14,344, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Collingswood places 1,892 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.