Muncie, IN's night sky, measured from orbit

Muncie's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 78.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Muncie.

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

The nearest darker sky to Muncie

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Yorktown, IN, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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.

How Muncie compares nationally

Muncie, IN counts roughly 65,320 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Muncie places 2,514 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.