Elizabeth, NJ Night Sky Brightness
Elizabeth, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit
Elizabeth's sky measures inner-city here. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Only 99.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Elizabeth.
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 Elizabeth
4 miles from Elizabeth, straight-line, sits Linden, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Elizabeth's own inner-city band.
Linden, 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 Elizabeth compares nationally
Elizabeth, NJ has a population of about 140,413, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Elizabeth's position, 3,166 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.