Bardstown, KY's night sky, measured from orbit

Bardstown'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. Bardstown's sky is brighter than 37.5% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Bardstown

Sellersburg, IN, about 44 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Bardstown. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Bardstown compares nationally

Bardstown, KY has a population of about 14,104, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Bardstown places 1,197 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.