What the night sky looks like over Bloomington, IL

Bloomington 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 40.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bloomington.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Bloomington

86 miles from Bloomington, straight-line, sits Plano, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Bloomington's own suburban edge band.

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

Bloomington against the rest of the dataset

Bloomington, IL has a population of about 79,232, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Bloomington ranks 1,284 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.