What the night sky looks like over Lawrenceburg, KY

Lawrenceburg reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Lawrenceburg's sky is brighter than 33.5% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Lawrenceburg

Sellersburg, IN, about 54 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Lawrenceburg. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Lawrenceburg against the rest of the dataset

Lawrenceburg, KY has a population of about 12,189, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lawrenceburg ranks 1,070 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.