Waupun, WI's night sky, measured from orbit

Waupun's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 39.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Waupun.

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 Waupun

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Richfield, WI, roughly 37 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Waupun compares nationally

Waupun, WI has a population of about 11,131, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Waupun places 1,257 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.