Mount Kisco, NY's night sky, measured from orbit

Mount Kisco'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. Mount Kisco's sky is brighter than 35.9% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Mount Kisco

10 miles from Mount Kisco, straight-line, sits Sleepy Hollow, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Mount Kisco's own suburban edge band.

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

How Mount Kisco compares nationally

About 10,698 people live in Mount Kisco, NY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Mount Kisco places 1,147 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.