Sylvania, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Sylvania 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. Only 36.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Sylvania.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near Sylvania

Oregon, OH, about 15 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Sylvania. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Oregon, 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 Sylvania compares nationally

Sylvania, OH counts roughly 19,102 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Sylvania places 1,160 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.