Florham Park, NJ Night Sky Brightness
Florham Park, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit
Florham Park'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. Only 22.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Florham Park.
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 Florham Park
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Kinnelon, NJ, roughly 14 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Kinnelon, 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 Florham Park compares nationally
Florham Park, NJ has a population of about 14,533, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Florham Park's position, 730 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.