Just curious, hoping nights will be reasonably dark compared to Oblivion's strangely illuminated ones.

I'm sure we've seen footage in one of the trailers of a night sweep over some town.

There's footage, I just can't tell you where to find them. The nights are....mehh. They look better than Oblivion's.

EDIT: Oh, yeah. Pretty sure there is some nighttime footage in one of the official trailers.

There's been a bit, although the town they swept over had the Auroura Borealis over it. Also I think the town was bright too, so I couldn't really tell.

Edit: spelling

I remember it was in one of the newer videos that was anolysed. I really have no idea what to search for, sorry.

http://consolelife.ru/uploads/posts/2011-08/1313227938_dark-elf-skyrim.jpg

turn brightness down to a 3rd if u can see too much

or if u have it on pc mods will fix it..

I think it's in this one. It's the G4 footage. I'm looking for the relevant part right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCOX1Km3K84

First real night footage at 5:42
Second at 8:25 ish
BUT I should remind you that night time in the snow is always bright. So don't expect it to be dark in snowy areas.

if im not mistaken that is the altered version of that pick that mikedezines produced to better see the detail of that armour. he just brightened it up some. I know because I was on the thread that discussed that picture and i was one of the ones that were pushing the belief that, that armor is the dark brotherhood armor which was later confirmed by gstaff.

I have seen gameplay footage of night time in skyrim ( though it was only in 480p) and it looks almost like oblivion. The major difference i could tell was it was a bit darker (not much mind you) and the draw distance seemed to be smaller, but as i said the footage was low quality.

I guess the brightness at night time is justified somewhat by the aurora. Granted REAL aurora is extremely faint, and doesn't light up the landscape much, but - artistic lisence