What the night sky looks like over Ringwood, NJ

Ringwood's sky measures dark sky here. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Only 0.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Ringwood.

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.

Ringwood is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Ringwood. 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.

Ringwood against the rest of the dataset

About 11,762 people live in Ringwood, NJ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Ringwood ranks 23 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.