Lynbrook, NY Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Lynbrook, NY?
Lynbrook's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 90.4% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Lynbrook
1 miles from Lynbrook, straight-line, sits East Rockaway, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lynbrook's own urban band.
East Rockaway, NY is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Lynbrook against the rest of the dataset
About 20,684 people live in Lynbrook, NY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Lynbrook comes in at 2,882, darkest to brightest.