Coos Bay, OR's night sky, measured from orbit

Coos Bay reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 14.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Coos Bay.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Coos Bay

Independence, OR, about 114 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Coos Bay. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Coos Bay compares nationally

Coos Bay, OR has a population of about 15,801, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Coos Bay places 451 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.