New Castle, IN: how dark is the sky here?

New Castle 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 35.4% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near New Castle

20 miles from New Castle, straight-line, sits Yorktown, IN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than New Castle's own suburban edge band.

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 New Castle compares nationally

New Castle, IN counts roughly 17,382 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. New Castle places 1,128 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.