Bellmead, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Bellmead 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 41.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Bellmead

11 miles from Bellmead, straight-line, sits Robinson, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Bellmead's own suburban edge band.

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

How Bellmead compares nationally

Bellmead, TX counts roughly 10,607 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Bellmead places 1,314 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.