Mount Washington, KY's night sky, measured from orbit

Mount Washington 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. Only 27.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mount Washington.

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

How far Mount Washington is from a meaningfully darker sky

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

Sellersburg, IN 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 Washington compares nationally

Mount Washington, KY counts roughly 18,863 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Mount Washington places 864 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.