What the night sky looks like over Ferndale, MI

Satellite radiance puts Ferndale in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 87.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Ferndale.

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.

How far Ferndale is from a meaningfully darker sky

2 miles from Ferndale, straight-line, sits Hazel Park, MI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Ferndale's own urban band.

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

Ferndale against the rest of the dataset

Ferndale, MI counts roughly 19,431 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Ferndale ranks 2,803 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.