What the night sky looks like over Lafayette, CO

Lafayette'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. That's brighter than 43.6% of the 3,206 US 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Lafayette

Louisville, CO, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Lafayette. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Lafayette against the rest of the dataset

Lafayette, CO has a population of about 30,587, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lafayette ranks 1,389 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.