Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO's night sky, measured from orbit

Bellefontaine Neighbors reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 32.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bellefontaine Neighbors.

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 Bellefontaine Neighbors

Glen Carbon, IL, about 13 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Bellefontaine Neighbors. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Glen Carbon, 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 Bellefontaine Neighbors compares nationally

Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO has a population of about 10,401, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Bellefontaine Neighbors places 1,035 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.