Watervliet, NY Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 1,604 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.