What the night sky looks like over Piqua, OH

Piqua's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Piqua's sky is brighter than 89.5% 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 Piqua

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Troy, OH, roughly 7 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

Piqua against the rest of the dataset

Piqua, OH counts roughly 20,940 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Piqua ranks 2,852 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.