What the night sky looks like over Lexington, NC

Lexington's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 8.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lexington.

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 Lexington is from a meaningfully darker sky

212 miles from Lexington, straight-line, sits Suffolk, VA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lexington's own rural band.

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

Lexington against the rest of the dataset

About 19,904 people live in Lexington, NC, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lexington ranks 286 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.