Dardenne Prairie, MO's night sky, measured from orbit

Dardenne Prairie'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. Only 18.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Dardenne Prairie.

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 Dardenne Prairie

12 miles from Dardenne Prairie, straight-line, sits Wildwood, MO, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Dardenne Prairie's own suburban edge band.

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

How Dardenne Prairie compares nationally

About 14,407 people live in Dardenne Prairie, MO, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Dardenne Prairie places 587 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.