North Augusta, SC's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts North Augusta 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 24.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near North Augusta

70 miles from North Augusta, straight-line, sits Columbia, SC, the nearest city here with a darker sky than North Augusta's own suburban edge band.

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

How North Augusta compares nationally

North Augusta, SC counts roughly 26,395 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. North Augusta places 786 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.