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Yukon, OK Night Sky Brightness

Yukon, OK's night sky, measured from orbit

Rural
3.0 nW/cm2/sr

Yukon's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Yukon's sky is brighter than 3.9% of the 3,206 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Yukon

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Godfrey, IL, roughly 478 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Yukon compares nationally

About 27,068 people live in Yukon, OK, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Yukon's position, 125 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.