Forest Park, GA's night sky, measured from orbit

Forest Park reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 81.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Forest Park.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Forest Park is from a meaningfully darker sky

East Point, GA, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Forest Park. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Forest Park compares nationally

Forest Park, GA counts roughly 19,301 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Forest Park places 2,586 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.