Leominster, MA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Leominster in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Leominster's sky is brighter than 6.9% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Leominster

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Fitchburg, MA, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

Fitchburg, 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 Leominster compares nationally

Leominster, MA has a population of about 44,209, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Leominster places 220 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.