Eden Prairie, MN Night Sky Brightness
Eden Prairie, MN's night sky, measured from orbit
Eden Prairie's sky measures suburban edge here. 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 19% 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.
The nearest darker sky to Eden Prairie
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Minnetonka, MN, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Minnetonka, MN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Eden Prairie compares nationally
Eden Prairie, MN counts roughly 62,905 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Eden Prairie's position, 607 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.