What the night sky looks like over Pottsville, PA

Satellite radiance puts Pottsville 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 26.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Pottsville.

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.

How far Pottsville is from a meaningfully darker sky

Hopatcong, NJ, about 83 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Pottsville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Pottsville against the rest of the dataset

Pottsville, PA has a population of about 13,404, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Pottsville ranks 858 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.