DarkSkyCheck

Lemoore, CA Night Sky Brightness

What the night sky looks like over Lemoore, CA

Suburban edge
16.8 nW/cm2/sr

Satellite radiance puts Lemoore 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. That's brighter than 33.9% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class - the Bortle scale guide covers why.

Where to go for a darker sky near Lemoore

20 miles from Lemoore, straight-line, sits Corcoran, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lemoore's own suburban edge band.

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

Lemoore against the rest of the dataset

Lemoore, CA counts roughly 27,057 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lemoore ranks 1,082 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.