What the night sky looks like over Broken Arrow, OK

Satellite radiance puts Broken Arrow in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 46.3% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

How far Broken Arrow is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Coweta, OK, roughly 8 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

Coweta, OK is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Broken Arrow against the rest of the dataset

Broken Arrow, OK has a population of about 122,756, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Broken Arrow ranks 1,476 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.