Bartlett, TN Night Sky Brightness
Bartlett, TN's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Bartlett in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Bartlett's sky is brighter than 31.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Bartlett
13 miles from Bartlett, straight-line, sits Atoka, TN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Bartlett's own suburban edge band.
Atoka, TN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Bartlett compares nationally
About 56,708 people live in Bartlett, TN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Bartlett's position, 992 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.