Rochester Hills, MI Night Sky Brightness
Rochester Hills, MI's night sky, measured from orbit
Rochester Hills's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Rochester Hills's sky is brighter than 24.7% 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Rochester Hills
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Oregon, OH, roughly 71 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Oregon, OH is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Rochester Hills compares nationally
Rochester Hills, MI has a population of about 78,330, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Rochester Hills's position, 787 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.