What the night sky looks like over Oak Ridge, TN

Satellite radiance puts Oak Ridge in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 9.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Oak Ridge.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Oak Ridge

Fort Oglethorpe, GA, about 89 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Oak Ridge. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Oak Ridge against the rest of the dataset

Oak Ridge, TN counts roughly 34,039 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Oak Ridge ranks 291 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.