What the night sky looks like over Plum, PA

Satellite radiance puts Plum in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Plum's sky is brighter than 7.6% 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 Plum

92 miles from Plum, straight-line, sits St. Marys, PA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Plum's own rural band.

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

Plum against the rest of the dataset

About 26,420 people live in Plum, PA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Plum ranks 242 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.