Cabot, AR Night Sky Brightness
Cabot, AR's night sky, measured from orbit
Cabot's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 90.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cabot.
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.
How far Cabot is from a meaningfully darker sky
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Jacksonville, AR, roughly 9 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Jacksonville, AR is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Cabot compares nationally
Cabot, AR has a population of about 27,575, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Cabot's position, 2,887 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.