What the night sky looks like over Cornelius, OR

Satellite radiance puts Cornelius 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 42.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cornelius.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Cornelius

Lake Oswego, OR, about 18 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Cornelius. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Cornelius against the rest of the dataset

Cornelius, OR has a population of about 15,369, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Cornelius ranks 1,352 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.