What the night sky looks like over Brandon, SD

Satellite radiance puts Brandon 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. Only 38.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Brandon.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Brandon

95 miles from Brandon, straight-line, sits Watertown, SD, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Brandon's own suburban edge band.

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

Brandon against the rest of the dataset

Brandon, SD has a population of about 10,837, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Brandon ranks 1,215 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.