Naugatuck, CT's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Naugatuck 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. Naugatuck's sky is brighter than 22.2% 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 Naugatuck

13 miles from Naugatuck, straight-line, sits Shelton, CT, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Naugatuck's own suburban edge band.

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

How Naugatuck compares nationally

Naugatuck, CT counts roughly 32,116 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Naugatuck places 710 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.