Fort Thomas, KY's night sky, measured from orbit

Fort Thomas'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 26% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Fort Thomas.

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 Fort Thomas

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Alexandria, KY, roughly 9 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Fort Thomas compares nationally

About 16,914 people live in Fort Thomas, KY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Fort Thomas places 830 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.