Franklin Town, MA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Franklin Town in the suburban edge band. 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 29.2% 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.

How far Franklin Town is from a meaningfully darker sky

15 miles from Franklin Town, straight-line, sits Framingham, MA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Franklin Town's own suburban edge band.

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

How Franklin Town compares nationally

Franklin Town, MA counts roughly 33,742 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Franklin Town places 933 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.