What the night sky looks like over Bluffton, IN

Satellite radiance puts Bluffton in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 75.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bluffton.

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 nearest darker sky to Bluffton

20 miles from Bluffton, straight-line, sits Huntington, IN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Bluffton's own suburban band.

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

Bluffton against the rest of the dataset

Bluffton, IN counts roughly 10,556 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Bluffton ranks 2,414 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.