Dark Sky Map of Nevada
 

1. Amargosa Valley
2. Baker
3. Battle Mountain
4. Beatty
5. Bishop/Big Pine
6. Boulder City
7. Bridgeport/Lee Vining
8. Caliente
9. Carlin
10. Carson City
11. Copper Canyon
12. Crescent Valley
13. Elko
14. Ely/McGill
15. Eureka
16. Fallon
17. Gabbs
18. Gerlach/Empire
19. Hawthorne
20. Imlay/Mill City
21. Incline Village
22. Jack Creek
23. Jackpot
24. Jean
25. Kingman
26. Las Vegas
27. Laughlin
28. Leeville

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29. Lida/Gold Point
30. Logandale/Overton
31. Lone Pine/Independence
32. Lovelock
33. Mercury/Indian Springs
34. Mesquite
35. Minden
36. Moapa
37. Needles
38. Pahrump
39. Panaca
40. Pioche
41. Primm
42. Reno/Sparks
43. Round Mountain
44. Scotty's Castle/Mesquite Spring DVNM
45. Searchlight
46. Stateline
47. Tonopah
48. Unionville
49. Valmy
50. Virginia City
51. Wadsworth/Fernley
52. Wells
53. West Wendover
54. Winnemucca
55. Yerington

Note: This is not a view of the Earth at night map. This map is the result of a program that detects light scatter from the sources and shows all of the consequential low altitude light pollution. White is the worst light pollution and black is little or no light pollution.

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The maps in the World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness are copyright protected, this use is done as a non-profit organization and as a demonstration showing the effects of light pollution in Nevada and some surrounding areas.

Credit: P. Cinzano, F. Falchi (University of Padova), C. D. Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder). Copyright Royal Astronomical Society. Reproduced from the Monthly Notices of the RAS by permission of Blackwell Science.

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