Pickerington, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Pickerington reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 20.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Pickerington.

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

The nearest darker sky to Pickerington

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Pataskala, OH, roughly 9 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Pickerington compares nationally

Pickerington, OH has a population of about 25,814, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Pickerington places 643 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.