Shiloh, IL Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 616 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.