Red Bank, TN Night Sky Brightness
Red Bank, TN's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Red Bank 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 25.8% of the 3,206 US 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 Red Bank is from a meaningfully darker sky
Soddy-Daisy, TN, about 13 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Red Bank. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Soddy-Daisy, TN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Red Bank compares nationally
Red Bank, TN has a population of about 12,073, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Red Bank's position, 822 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.