What the night sky looks like over Oneonta, NY

Satellite radiance puts Oneonta 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 36.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Oneonta

53 miles from Oneonta, straight-line, sits Oneida, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Oneonta's own suburban edge band.

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

Oneonta against the rest of the dataset

Oneonta, NY counts roughly 15,679 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Oneonta ranks 1,170 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.