Riverside, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Riverside 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 27.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Riverside.

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

How far Riverside is from a meaningfully darker sky

Trotwood, OH, about 11 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Riverside. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Trotwood, 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 Riverside compares nationally

Riverside, OH counts roughly 24,472 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Riverside places 876 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.