What the night sky looks like over Marion, IN

Marion 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. That's brighter than 42.5% of the 3,206 US 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Marion

Yorktown, IN, about 27 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Marion. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Marion against the rest of the dataset

Marion, IN has a population of about 28,216, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Marion ranks 1,357 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.