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.

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 places 910 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.