Pickerington, OH Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 643 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.