What the night sky looks like over Huntertown, IN

Satellite radiance puts Huntertown 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. Huntertown's sky is brighter than 18.5% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

How far Huntertown is from a meaningfully darker sky

74 miles from Huntertown, straight-line, sits Yorktown, IN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Huntertown's own suburban edge band.

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

Huntertown against the rest of the dataset

Huntertown, IN counts roughly 11,481 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Huntertown ranks 590 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.