Mahomet, IL Night Sky Brightness
Mahomet, IL's night sky, measured from orbit
Mahomet'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. Only 28.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mahomet.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Mahomet is from a meaningfully darker sky
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Plano, IL, roughly 103 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.
Plano, IL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Mahomet compares nationally
Mahomet, IL has a population of about 10,619, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Mahomet's position, 910 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.