How dark is the sky in Pomerania?
Sky darkness for 10 towns and parks in Pomerania, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). 6 of them have skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Słowiński National Park (21.62, Bortle 4), the brightest Gdańsk (18.23, Bortle 8). The bright core of the Milky Way never climbs clear of the horizon haze anywhere in Pomerania while the sky is fully dark; the rest of the band passes overhead, with the longest moonless nights from September to March.
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 Pomerania
- Słowiński National ParkBortle 421.62
- Słupia Valley Landscape ParkBortle 421.50
- Zaborski Landscape ParkBortle 421.49
- Bory Tucholskie National ParkBortle 421.36
- Wdzydze Landscape 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.
