Centralia, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Centralia 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. Only 41.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Centralia.

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 Centralia

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

Highland, 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 Centralia compares nationally

Centralia, IL has a population of about 11,787, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Centralia places 1,311 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.