West Memphis, AR Night Sky Brightness
West Memphis, AR's night sky, measured from orbit
West Memphis's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 40.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than West Memphis.
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 West Memphis
Atoka, TN, about 30 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than West Memphis. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Atoka, 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 West Memphis compares nationally
West Memphis, AR has a population of about 23,538, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. West Memphis's position, 1,291 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.