Jacksonville, NC Night Sky Brightness
Jacksonville, NC's night sky, measured from orbit
Jacksonville reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 9.9% 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
142 miles from Jacksonville, straight-line, sits Suffolk, VA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Jacksonville's own rural band.
Suffolk, 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 Jacksonville compares nationally
Jacksonville, NC counts roughly 70,840 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Jacksonville's position, 315 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.