What the night sky looks like over Maple Heights, OH

Satellite radiance puts Maple Heights in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 89.3% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

How far Maple Heights is from a meaningfully darker sky

2 miles from Maple Heights, straight-line, sits Bedford, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Maple Heights's own urban band.

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

Maple Heights against the rest of the dataset

Maple Heights, OH has a population of about 23,081, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Maple Heights ranks 2,847 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.