Elizabethtown, KY's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Elizabethtown in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Elizabethtown's sky is brighter than 41.3% of the 3,206 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.

How far Elizabethtown is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Sellersburg, IN, roughly 48 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

Sellersburg, 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 Elizabethtown compares nationally

Elizabethtown, KY counts roughly 34,565 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Elizabethtown places 1,318 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.