What the night sky looks like over Lake Station, IN

Satellite radiance puts Lake Station 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. Only 17.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lake Station.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Lake Station

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Hobart, IN, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

Lake Station against the rest of the dataset

Lake Station, IN counts roughly 13,033 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lake Station ranks 564 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.