From the LP map, I am in the middle of an orange zone. But my subdivision has dim lighted streets and lots of "green belt". Sometimes coming home at night I have trouble getting the key in the door. So it can be dark.
Best bet would be to get an SQM or SQM-L and see how bad your skies really are.
For anybody seriously interested in correlating their skies with their color zone on the Light Pollution Atlas, see my thread on the Traveling SQM-L in the General Observing Forum. I suppose I should have put that thread in this forum, but I'm not about to change it now.
Anyway, the SQM-L has begun to travel, and new volunteers are welcome. My own measurements -- which I'll post to the Sky & Telescope website in my "copious spare time" cast serious doubt on the color zones. I still don't doubt that they're accurate plus or minus one zone. But one zone covers a 3-fold change in the light pollution, which is a huge amount.
-------------------- Tony Flanders
First and foremost observing love: naked eye.
Second, binoculars.
Last but not least, telescopes.
And I sometimes dabble with cameras.
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cast serious doubt on the color zones. I still don't doubt that they're accurate plus or minus one zone. But one zone covers a 3-fold change in the light pollution, which is a huge amount.
