What the night sky looks like over Wabash, IN

Satellite radiance puts Wabash 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. That's brighter than 34.8% of the 3,206 US 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.

How far Wabash is from a meaningfully darker sky

46 miles from Wabash, straight-line, sits Yorktown, IN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Wabash's own suburban edge band.

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

Wabash against the rest of the dataset

Wabash, IN has a population of about 10,275, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Wabash ranks 1,109 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.