Hampton, VA's night sky, measured from orbit

Hampton'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. Only 25% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hampton.

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

How far Hampton is from a meaningfully darker sky

6 miles from Hampton, straight-line, sits Poquoson, VA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Hampton's own suburban edge band.

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

How Hampton compares nationally

About 137,596 people live in Hampton, VA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Hampton places 799 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.