Goose Creek, SC's night sky, measured from orbit

Goose Creek's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 12.8% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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

How far Goose Creek is from a meaningfully darker sky

Charleston, SC, about 12 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Goose Creek. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Goose Creek compares nationally

Goose Creek, SC has a population of about 50,352, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Goose Creek places 410 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.