DarkSkyCheck

Owasso, OK Night Sky Brightness

Owasso, OK's night sky, measured from orbit

Urban
47.9 nW/cm2/sr

Owasso's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Owasso's sky is brighter than 87.7% of the 3,206 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.

How far Owasso is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Claremore, OK, roughly 13 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

How Owasso compares nationally

Owasso, OK has a population of about 42,821, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Owasso's position, 2,796 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.