Vincennes, IN Night Sky Brightness
Vincennes, IN's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Vincennes 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 29.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Vincennes.
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 Vincennes
92 miles from Vincennes, straight-line, sits Bargersville, IN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Vincennes's own suburban edge band.
Bargersville, IN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Vincennes compares nationally
Vincennes, IN has a population of about 16,506, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Vincennes's position, 932 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.