Fountain, CO's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Fountain 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. Fountain's sky is brighter than 21.4% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Fountain

71 miles from Fountain, straight-line, sits Aurora, CO, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Fountain's own suburban edge band.

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

How Fountain compares nationally

About 29,457 people live in Fountain, CO, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Fountain places 684 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.