What the night sky looks like over Crestwood, IL

Satellite radiance puts Crestwood in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 90.3% 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 Crestwood is from a meaningfully darker sky

Midlothian, IL, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Crestwood. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Crestwood against the rest of the dataset

About 10,533 people live in Crestwood, IL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Crestwood ranks 2,878 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.