Chesterton, IN's night sky, measured from orbit

Chesterton 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. That's brighter than 19.2% 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 Chesterton

13 miles from Chesterton, straight-line, sits Hobart, IN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Chesterton's own suburban edge band.

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

How Chesterton compares nationally

Chesterton, IN has a population of about 14,655, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Chesterton places 614 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.