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How dark is the sky in Moravian-Silesian Region?

Sky darkness for 12 towns and parks in Moravian-Silesian Region, 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 the Beskydy Dark Sky Park (21.08, Bortle 4), the brightest Ostrava (18.69, Bortle 7). The bright core of the Milky Way never climbs clear of the horizon haze anywhere in Moravian-Silesian Region while the sky is fully dark; the rest of the band passes overhead, with the longest moonless nights from September to April.

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 Moravian-Silesian Region with every place marked

Darkest skies in Moravian-Silesian Region

  1. the Beskydy Dark Sky ParkBortle 421.08

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 Moravian-Silesian Region

  1. OstravaBortle 718.69
  2. KarvináBortle 619.41
  3. Frýdek-MístekBortle 619.43
  4. BohumínBortle 619.46
  5. Český TěšínBortle 619.47

All 12 places in Moravian-Silesian Region

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