Glasgow, KY Night Sky Brightness
Glasgow, KY: how dark is the sky here?
Satellite radiance puts Glasgow in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 83.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Glasgow.
This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to Glasgow
Franklin, KY, about 40 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Glasgow. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Franklin, 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 Glasgow compares nationally
Glasgow, KY has a population of about 15,388, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Glasgow places 2,650 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.