Covington, LA's night sky, measured from orbit

Covington's sky measures suburban edge here. 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 16.5% 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 Covington

31 miles from Covington, straight-line, sits New Orleans, LA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Covington's own suburban edge band.

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

How Covington compares nationally

Covington, LA counts roughly 11,686 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Covington places 528 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.