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How dark is the sky in Osijek-Baranja?

Sky darkness for 2 towns and parks in Osijek-Baranja, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). 1 of them has skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Kopački Rit Nature Park (21.33, Bortle 4), the brightest Osijek (19.55, Bortle 5). Milky Way season in Osijek-Baranja runs April to August: on moonless nights the bright core stands clear of the horizon, climbing to about 15° 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

NASA satellite night-lights map of Osijek-Baranja with every place marked

Darkest skies in Osijek-Baranja

  1. Kopački Rit Nature ParkBortle 421.33

Among the places on this site. Plenty of land between them is just as dark, with no town or park to name it by.

Brightest city skies in Osijek-Baranja

  1. OsijekBortle 519.55

All 2 places in Osijek-Baranja

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Kopački Rit Nature Park4Osijek5