Roselle Park, NJ Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Roselle Park, NJ?
Roselle Park reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 81.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Roselle Park.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Roselle Park
8 miles from Roselle Park, straight-line, sits New Providence, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Roselle Park's own suburban band.
New Providence, NJ is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Roselle Park against the rest of the dataset
Roselle Park, NJ counts roughly 14,390 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Roselle Park comes in at 2,587, darkest to brightest.