Roscoe, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Roscoe 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. Roscoe's sky is brighter than 42.2% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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

The nearest darker sky to Roscoe

13 miles from Roscoe, straight-line, sits Belvidere, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Roscoe's own suburban edge band.

Belvidere, 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 Roscoe compares nationally

Roscoe, IL counts roughly 10,981 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Roscoe places 1,346 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.