What the night sky looks like over Ossining, NY

Satellite radiance puts Ossining 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 42.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Ossining.

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 Ossining is from a meaningfully darker sky

Sleepy Hollow, NY, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Ossining. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Ossining against the rest of the dataset

Ossining, NY has a population of about 26,895, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Ossining ranks 1,343 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.