Eastpointe, MI Night Sky Brightness
Eastpointe, MI's night sky, measured from orbit
Eastpointe's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 73.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Eastpointe.
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.
The nearest darker sky to Eastpointe
3 miles from Eastpointe, straight-line, sits Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Eastpointe's own suburban band.
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Eastpointe compares nationally
Eastpointe, MI counts roughly 33,943 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Eastpointe's position, 2,334 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.