Shiloh, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Shiloh reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 19.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Shiloh.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near Shiloh

15 miles from Shiloh, straight-line, sits Glen Carbon, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Shiloh's own suburban edge band.

Glen Carbon, 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 Shiloh compares nationally

About 14,754 people live in Shiloh, IL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Shiloh places 616 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.