What the night sky looks like over Shakopee, MN

Satellite radiance puts Shakopee 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 15.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Shakopee.

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 Shakopee

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Prior Lake, MN, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

Shakopee against the rest of the dataset

Shakopee, MN counts roughly 48,401 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Shakopee ranks 508 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.