What the night sky looks like over Newport, KY

Newport's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Newport's sky is brighter than 93.8% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Newport

2 miles from Newport, straight-line, sits Fort Thomas, KY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Newport's own urban band.

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

Newport against the rest of the dataset

About 13,792 people live in Newport, KY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Newport ranks 2,989 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.