How dark is the sky in Zlín Region?
Sky darkness for 6 towns and parks in Zlín 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 Beskydy Protected Landscape Area (21.12, Bortle 4), the brightest Zlín (19.44, Bortle 6). The bright core of the Milky Way never climbs clear of the horizon haze anywhere in Zlín Region while the sky is fully dark; the rest of the band passes overhead, with the longest moonless nights from September to April.
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
Darkest skies in Zlín Region
Among the places on this site. Plenty of land between them is just as dark, with no town or park to name it by.
