Hastings, NE Night Sky Brightness
Hastings, NE's night sky, measured from orbit
Hastings reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 68.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hastings.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Hastings
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is North Platte, NE, roughly 129 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
North Platte, NE is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Hastings compares nationally
About 25,152 people live in Hastings, NE, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Hastings's position, 2,175 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.