New Lenox, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts New Lenox in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 35.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than New Lenox.

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

How far New Lenox is from a meaningfully darker sky

32 miles from New Lenox, straight-line, sits Plano, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than New Lenox's own suburban edge band.

Plano, IL 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 Lenox compares nationally

New Lenox, IL counts roughly 28,480 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. New Lenox places 1,135 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.