Morristown, TN's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Morristown in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 89.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Morristown.

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

The nearest darker sky to Morristown

Sevierville, TN, about 27 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Morristown. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Morristown compares nationally

About 32,994 people live in Morristown, TN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Morristown places 2,851 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.