Watervliet, NY's night sky, measured from orbit

Watervliet's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 50.3% of the 3,206 US 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.

The nearest darker sky to Watervliet

3 miles from Watervliet, straight-line, sits Cohoes, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Watervliet's own suburban band.

Cohoes, NY is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Watervliet compares nationally

Watervliet, NY has a population of about 10,268, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Watervliet places 1,604 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.