Ephrata, PA's night sky, measured from orbit

Ephrata's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 60.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Ephrata.

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 Ephrata

19 miles from Ephrata, straight-line, sits Columbia, PA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Ephrata's own suburban band.

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

How Ephrata compares nationally

Ephrata, PA has a population of about 13,719, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ephrata places 1,915 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.