What the night sky looks like over Eastlake, OH

Satellite radiance puts Eastlake in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 19.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Eastlake.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Eastlake

Aurora, OH, about 25 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Eastlake. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Eastlake against the rest of the dataset

Eastlake, OH has a population of about 17,423, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Eastlake ranks 617 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.