Carpentersville, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Carpentersville in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 23.1% of the 3,206 US 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.

The nearest darker sky to Carpentersville

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

Bartlett, 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 Carpentersville compares nationally

Carpentersville, IL has a population of about 37,144, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Carpentersville places 738 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.