DarkSkyCheck

Huber Heights, OH Night Sky Brightness

Huber Heights, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Suburban edge
15.2 nW/cm2/sr

Huber Heights 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. That's brighter than 29.7% 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.

The nearest darker sky to Huber Heights

12 miles from Huber Heights, straight-line, sits Trotwood, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Huber Heights's own suburban edge band.

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

How Huber Heights compares nationally

Huber Heights, OH has a population of about 43,590, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Huber Heights's position, 947 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.