DarkSkyCheck

Ashwaubenon, WI Night Sky Brightness

What the night sky looks like over Ashwaubenon, WI

Suburban
20.8 nW/cm2/sr

Ashwaubenon's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 45.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Ashwaubenon.

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 Bortle scale guide covers why.

Where to go for a darker sky near Ashwaubenon

Allouez, WI, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Ashwaubenon. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Ashwaubenon against the rest of the dataset

Ashwaubenon, WI has a population of about 17,437, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Ashwaubenon ranks 1,463 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.