YozoraAtlasyo·zo·ra (夜空) n. [Jap.] night sky

How dark is the sky in Queensland?

Sky darkness for 41 towns and parks in Queensland, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). 28 of them have skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Alton National Park (21.95, Bortle 2), the brightest Brisbane (17.82, Bortle 8). Milky Way season in Queensland runs February to October: on moonless nights the bright core stands clear of the horizon, climbing to about 90° at its highest.

19 Bortle class, 1 pristine to 9 city center park or dark-sky place city

Numbers like 21.95 or 16.97 are the brightness of the sky overhead on a clear, moonless night, in mag/arcsec². The scale runs backwards: a lower number means a brighter sky, from about 22 for a natural sky to about 17 in a city center.
How the readings are made

All 41 places in Queensland

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Alton National Park2Barron Gorge National Park4Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park2Bowling Green Bay National Park4Brisbane8Bundaberg5Cairns7Caloundra5Carnarvon National Park2Currawinya National Park2Daintree National Park2Davies Creek National Park4Diamantina National Park2Eungella National Park3Fitzroy Island National Park4Girringun National Park2Gladstone7Glass House Mountains National Park4Gold Coast7Great Sandy National Park2Gympie5Hervey Bay4Jardine River National Park2Kalkajaka National Park2Lamington National Park4Mackay6Main Range National Park4Maryborough5Mazeppa National Park2Mount Barney National Park4Noosa National Park4Paluma Range National Park3Rinyirru (Lakefield) National Park2Rockhampton7Springbrook National Park4Sunshine Coast6Toowoomba7Townsville7Winton4Wooroonooran National Park3the Jump-Up2