Jacksonville, AR Night Sky Brightness
Jacksonville, AR's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Jacksonville 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 24.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Jacksonville.
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.
Where to go for a darker sky near Jacksonville
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Camden, AR, roughly 99 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Camden, AR is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Jacksonville compares nationally
Jacksonville, AR has a population of about 29,129, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Jacksonville's position, 793 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.