Brandon, MS's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Brandon in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Brandon's sky is brighter than 60.5% of the 3,206 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 Brandon

Jackson, MS, about 13 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Brandon. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Brandon compares nationally

Brandon, MS counts roughly 25,870 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Brandon places 1,928 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.