What the night sky looks like over Seymour, IN

Satellite radiance puts Seymour 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. Seymour's sky is brighter than 20.6% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Seymour

Sellersburg, IN, about 38 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Seymour. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Seymour against the rest of the dataset

Seymour, IN has a population of about 22,524, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Seymour ranks 656 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.