What the night sky looks like over Chickasha, OK

Satellite radiance puts Chickasha 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. Only 18.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Chickasha.

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 Chickasha is from a meaningfully darker sky

Yukon, OK, about 35 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Chickasha. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Chickasha against the rest of the dataset

Chickasha, OK has a population of about 17,014, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Chickasha ranks 595 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.