Palisades Park, NJ Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Palisades Park, NJ
Palisades Park's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Palisades Park's sky is brighter than 85.5% of the 3,206 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 - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
The nearest darker sky to Palisades Park
1 miles from Palisades Park, straight-line, sits Ridgefield Park, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Palisades Park's own urban band.
Ridgefield Park, NJ is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Palisades Park against the rest of the dataset
Palisades Park, NJ has a population of about 20,520, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Palisades Park ranks 2,725 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.