Great Neck, NY Night Sky Brightness
Great Neck, NY: how dark is the sky here?
Satellite radiance puts Great Neck in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 50% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Great Neck.
This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
How far Great Neck is from a meaningfully darker sky
Glen Cove, NY, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Great Neck. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Glen Cove, NY is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Great Neck compares nationally
Great Neck, NY has a population of about 11,075, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Great Neck places 1,595 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.