What the night sky looks like over Moses Lake, WA

Satellite radiance puts Moses Lake in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 93.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Moses Lake.

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.

How far Moses Lake is from a meaningfully darker sky

51 miles from Moses Lake, straight-line, sits East Wenatchee, WA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Moses Lake's own urban band.

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

Moses Lake against the rest of the dataset

Moses Lake, WA counts roughly 26,969 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Moses Lake ranks 2,970 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.