What the night sky looks like over Corning, NY

Corning reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 68.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

How far Corning is from a meaningfully darker sky

Ithaca, NY, about 35 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Corning. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Corning against the rest of the dataset

Corning, NY has a population of about 10,605, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Corning ranks 2,176 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.