What the night sky looks like over Elizabethtown, PA

Elizabethtown reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. 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 32.5% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Elizabethtown

89 miles from Elizabethtown, straight-line, sits Pine Hill, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Elizabethtown's own suburban edge band.

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

Elizabethtown against the rest of the dataset

About 11,993 people live in Elizabethtown, PA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Elizabethtown ranks 1,037 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.