Mount Juliet, TN Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Mount Juliet, TN?
Satellite radiance puts Mount Juliet 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 40.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mount Juliet.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Mount Juliet is from a meaningfully darker sky
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Hartsville/Trousdale County, TN, roughly 24 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Hartsville/Trousdale County, TN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Mount Juliet against the rest of the dataset
About 44,066 people live in Mount Juliet, TN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Mount Juliet comes in at 1,301, darkest to brightest.