What the night sky looks like over Sweet Home, OR

Satellite radiance puts Sweet Home 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. Sweet Home's sky is brighter than 13.3% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Sweet Home

Independence, OR, about 40 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Sweet Home. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Sweet Home against the rest of the dataset

About 10,265 people live in Sweet Home, OR, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Sweet Home ranks 426 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.