Palmer Town, MA Night Sky Brightness
Palmer Town, MA's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Palmer Town in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Only 0.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Palmer Town.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Palmer Town is already about as dark as this dataset gets
Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Palmer Town. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.
How Palmer Town compares nationally
About 12,388 people live in Palmer Town, MA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Palmer Town's position, 28 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.