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

How dark is the sky in Telšiai County?

Sky darkness for 4 towns and parks in Telšiai County, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). 2 of them have skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Varniai Regional Park (21.63, Bortle 4), the brightest Telsiai (19.84, Bortle 5). The bright core of the Milky Way never climbs clear of the horizon haze anywhere in Telšiai County while the sky is fully dark; the rest of the band passes overhead, with the longest moonless nights from September to March.

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 Telšiai County with every place marked

Darkest skies in Telšiai County

  1. Varniai Regional ParkBortle 421.63
  2. Žemaitija National ParkBortle 421.59

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 Telšiai County

  1. TelsiaiBortle 519.84
  2. MazeikiaiBortle 520.11

All 4 places in Telšiai County

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